Epiphytic or terrestrial shrub, 2-3 m tall; branches and branchlets subterete, glabrous, striate, thick and widely divergent. Leaf blades coriaceous, ovate to broadly elliptic, 6-13 cm long, 4-6(-9) cm wide, glabrate or with appressed, reddish brown, strigillose trichomes 0.2-0.6 mm long, basally cuneate, acute to obtuse apically, entire, pinnately veined, the 3-5 secondary veins arcuate and the veinlets conspicuously reticulate, slightly elevated both above and beneath; petioles glabrous, 0.5-1.5 cm long, 1.5-3 mm in diameter. Inflorescences compact axillary, umbelliform racemes, the glabrous, stout peduncle and rachis 12-16 mm long, basally bracteate, the broadly ovate, thick, scale-like, ciliate bracts 4-5 mm long, 3.5-4.5 mm wide subtending the pedicels, the pedicels 3-10 mm long, 2 mm in diameter, bracteoles 2, subopposite, broadly ciliate, keeled, ovate, 3-4 mm long, 4-5 mm wide borne near the base of the pedicel. Flowers with the hypanthium disarticulating from the pedicel by a marked groove and with a fringe of glandular trichomes 0.1-0.2 mm long, campanulate, thick walled, 4-5 mm high, 4 mm in diameter, sparingly strigillose with appressed glandular trichomes; the limb glabrous, 1-1.5 mm high, the lobes erect or incurved, broadly triangular, acute, 2-3 mm long, 4-5 mm wide basally, short ciliate; corolla tube broadly cylindric or subglobose, pale greenish white, 6-8 mm long, medially 7-8 mm in diameter, sparsely pubescent outside near the middle with appressed trichomes 0.4-0.6 mm long, the lobes spreading to reflexed, triangular, acute, ca. 3 mm long, 4.5-5 mm wide at the base, densely tangled villous within with white trichomes 0.4-0.7 mm long; stamens 10, the filaments flattened, 3-4 mm long, broadened basally to ca. 1 mm wide, tapering gradually upwards to ca. 0.6 mm, glabrous for about the basal third, strikingly pilose above with trichomes 0.5-1 mm long, the anthers medially attached, conspicuously granular, 3-4 mm long, the tubules submembranous, vestigial to 0.3 mm long, the base strongly incurved, ca. 1 mm long, the thecae dehiscing by a longitudinal slit extending from the apex to the base, basally with a pronounced curve; style ca. 7 mm long.
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