Suffrutescent vine, quadrangular, tawny, dense, pilose, the hairs 12 mm long mostly at the angles on the young stem, older stem with corky ridges to a width of 2 cm. Leaves elliptic to elliptic ovate, to 13 mm long, 8.3 mm wide, apically acuminate, often with an apicule to 2 mm long, basally acute to rounded, the pilose hairs with stellate bases above, more densely pilose beneath, 4-5 pairs of veins especially prominent beneath, the margins entire; petioles ca. 2 cm long with tawny, densely pilose hairs ca. 1.5 mm long. Inflorescences axillary, the pedicels borne singly or in pairs, to 2.5 cn long, densely pilose; bracts oblong to oblong ovate, to 4 cm long, 1.5 cm wide, rounded apically and basally with a short mucro 0.5 mm long, covered with pilose hairs, densely tawny pilose out-side, glabrous inside. Flowers with the corolla white, ca. 5 mm long, 8 mm wide at the oblique throat, the lobes emarginate, spreading ca. 8 mm long, 5-6 mm wide, glabrous. Fruit ovoid purplish black at maturity, ca. 1.8 cm long, 1.1 cm wide, 0.5 cm thick, densely puberulous.
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