Young parts with a short dense dark red-brown indumentum of stellate hairs, soon glabrescent on adult stems and leaf upper surfaces. Leaves opposite; lamina elliptic to ovate, 2-2.5 by 1-1.5 cm, cuneate at the base to a petiole c. 5 mm long, rounded at the apex; venation obscure except for the midrib raised in the lower part on the underside. Inflorescences produced successively at the nodes, a 2-flowered umbel; axis 1-3 mm long; pedicels 4-7 mm long; bract narrow, concave, erect, rounded, c. 1.5 mm long. Corolla in mature bud c. 25 mm long, robust, slightly inflated above the base, obtuse at the apex; open flower not seen. Fruit c. 10 mm long including a stipe c. 5 mm long, contracted at the apex.
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