Terrestrial or epiphytic shrub 1-4 m tall with slender, grayish to olive brown, glabrous branchlets. Leaves indistinctly 3-5-plinerved and also some-what arcuately veined, coriaceous, glabrous to moderately appressed glandular strigillose above and especially beneath, entire, slightly thickened at the margin, ovate to lanceolate or elliptic, apically acute to acuminate, basally cuneate to rounded, (3-)5-9(-11) cm long, (1.5-)3-5(-6.5) cm wide; petioles 2-4(-6) mm long, glabrous. Inflorescences axillary, umbelliform racemes mostly 2-4 cm long; peduncle glabrous to sparingly puberulent, 2-10 mm long; rachis glabrous to sparingly puberulent, 0.5-1 cm long; bracts persistent, ovate to lance ovate or lanceolate, glabrous to sparingly short ciliate, bracts 1-3 mm long basal; pedicels glabrous to sparsely puberulous, 1-2 (-2.5) cm long; bractlets 2, to almost medial subopposite, ovate to lance ovate, persistent, glabrous to incon-spicuously ciliate, 1-1.5 mm long. Flowers with the hypanthium campanulate, 2-3 mm high, 3-5 mm in diameter, glabrous, clearly disarticulating from the pedicel by a sharply delineated groove often fringed with glandular trichomes 0.1-0.2 mm long; calyx limb 0.8-1 mm tall, the lobes 5, broadly triangular, 2-3.5 mm long, acute, glabrous; corolla broadly cylindric, 0.7-1.0 cm long, 4-5 mm in diameter, externally glabrous to moderately appressed spiculate, internally densely floccose with a tangle of white, villous trichomes, pale greenish often suffused with red, the lobes 5, triangular, 2.0-2.2 mm long, apically acute, erect to spreading or even reflexed, densely villous floccose within; stamens 10, the filaments flattened, slightly adherent to the very base of the corolla tube, slightly ciliate, the anther sacs golden, attached on the lower 1/3, granular, basally in-wardly curved, ca. 2.2 mm long, lacking horns and spurs, the tubules inconspic-uous, stout ca. 1 mm long each with a terminal pore; style elevated upon a 1.2-1.5 mm long, granular, columnar projection from ovary. Berries succulent, dark purplish at maturity, 8-10 mm in diameter.
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