Epiphytic or terrestrial shrubs or small trees (1-) 2-5 (-10?) m tall with glabrous branchlets and branches. Leaves indistinctly 3-5-plinerved and also somewhat arcuately veined, coriaceous, glabrous or sparingly to moderately ap-pressed glandular strigose above and especially beneath, rarely short puberulent near the base, entire, slightly revolute, ovate to lanceolate or elliptic, acute to acuminate, 3-8 (-10) cm long, (1-) 2.5-4 (-6) cm wide; petioles 1-4 mm long, glabrous to hirsutulous. Inflorescences axillary, umbelliform racemes mostly 2-4 cm long; rachis glabrous to sparingly puberulent, 0.5-2 cm long; bracts per-sistent, lance ovate to lanceolate, ciliate, 1.5-2.5 mm long; pedicels slender, sparingly puberulent, 7-15 mm long in flower, the bractlets 2, submedial, subopposite, lance ovate to lanceolate, often persistent, ciliate, 1-1.5 mm long. Flowers with the hypanthium short campanulate to turbinate, 2-3.5 mm high and about equal in diameter, glabrous to densely puberulent, clearly disarticulat-ing from the pedicel by a marked groove and often with a fringe of glandular trichomes 0.1-0.2 mm long; calyx limb 0.5-0.7 mm tall, the lobes 5, broadly and shallowly deltoid with an apiculate tip 0.2-0.5 mm long; corolla broadly cylin-dric, 8-12 mm long, 6-10 mm in diameter, externally and internally glabrous or apically sparsely, villose, pale yellowish or greenish white and occasionally tinged with bright rose or pink, the lobes 5, broadly oblong, 2-3.5 mm long, apically acute to obtuse, erect to slightly recurved; stamens 10, the filaments 2-2.5 mm long, ciliate, flattened, broadened basally where slightly adherent to the very base of the corolla tube, the thecae golden, attached slightly above the middle, granular, basally inwardly curved, 1.8-2.2 mm long, lacking horns or spurs but with slender yellowish tubules 3.5-5.5 mm long each with a slightly inwardly oblique pore; style greenish, 8-10 mm long. Berries succulent, yellowish but turning dark purple at maturity, subglobose, 7-10 mm in diameter.
Home