Shrubs, ca. 1.5 m tall; branchlets ferruginous pubescent. Leaves opposite; petiole 0.5-1 cm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent; blade drying leathery, elliptic or lanceolate-elliptic, 4-8 × 0.8-2 cm, adaxially glabrous, abaxially sparsely pubescent along midrib, base acute and usually decurrent, apex acute; secondary veins not easily visible; stipules generally persistent, broadly triangular, 1.5-3 mm, apex erect, acute. Inflorescence paniculate, lax, pyramidal, 6-10.5 × 4.5-10.5 cm, ferruginous pilosulous, sessile and tripartite or pedunculate; peduncle 1.8-3.6 cm; pedicels 3-6 mm. Flowers pedicellate. Calyx sparsely pilosulous or glabrous; hypanthium portion subglobose, ca. 1.75 mm; limb lobed nearly to base; lobes triangular, ca. 0.75 mm. Corolla purplish red, tubular-salverform, glabrous outside; tube 2.3-3 mm, sparsely strigillose inside; lobes narrowly oblong to spatulate, 1.7-2 mm. Anthers linear-lanceolate, ca. 1.2 mm, subsessile, partially exserted. Stigma 2-lobed, ca. 0.5 mm. Capsules not seen. Fl. Feb.
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