Epiphytic shrub 0.5 m tall with stout, glabrous, purplish branchlets and gray-ish branches. Leaf blades coriaceous, elliptic, 3.0-8.5 cm long, 2.0-4.5 cm wide, acutely tapering to both the apex and the base, the margin entire, thickened, slightly revolute, glabrate or with appressed, reddish brown, apparently glan-dular, strigillose trichomes 0.2-0.3 mm long especially on the lower surfaces, pin-nately veined; petioles glabrous, 3-5 mm long, 2.0-3.5 mm in diam. Inflorescences axillary, compact, umbelliform racemes 2-3 cm long; peduncle and rachis 8-12 mm long; floral bracts scalelike, ciliate, ovate to suborbicular, somewhat keeled, 2.0-2.2 mm long and about as wide, pedicels stiff, somewhat clavate, glabrous, 5-13 mm long, medially ca. 1 mm in diam., bracteoles 2, subopposite, broadly ovate or suborbicular, ciliate, keeled, appressed, 2.0-2.5 mm long, 1.8-2.2 mm wide, borne on the lower 1/4 of the pedicel. Flowers with the hypanthium gla-brous, campanulate, 3-4 mm high, 4-5 mm in diameter, disarticulating from the pedicel by a marked groove often inconspicuously fringed by glandular trichomes 0.1-0.2 mm long; calyx limb glabrous, 0.5-0.7 mm high, the lobes 5, erect, tri-angular, acute, 1.5-2.0 mm long, 2.0-2.2 mm wide basally, short ciliate; corolla pale greenish, broadly cylindric to urceolate, 4-5 mm long, medially 5-6 mm in diameter, sparingly and inconspicuously strigillose with trichomes 0.1-0.2 mm long, corolla lobes 5, spreading to weakly reflexed, triangular, acute, 1.5-1.8 mm long, 2 mm wide at base, inside densely tangled villous with white trichomes 0.6-1.0 mm long; stamens 10, the filaments flattened, 2.5-3.0 mm long, broadened basally to ca. 1 mm wide, densely pilose distally; anthers attached near the middle just above the basal bend in the thecae, conspicuously granular, ca. 3 mm long, the tubules vestigial, ca. 0.3 mm long, the thecae with a strongly incurved base ca. 1 mm long or %/s the length of the theca, dehiscing by means of a longitudinal slit from the apex to the basal curve.
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