Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Small, many branched, delicately pendulous shrubs.

Stems: Stems 20–60 mm long, densely tan tomentose when young, glabrate.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate, (0.1)0.5–3.5(5) mm apart. Blades narrowly lanceolate, soft coriaceous, (20)25–30(45) mm long, 2–4 mm wide. Apex attenuate. Base attenuate. Upper surfaces green, glabrous, lower green, brown pilose. Margins entire. Secondary and higher–order veins obscure. Petioles 1(2) mm long. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers solitary in leaf axils. Flowers bisexual (perfect), 5–7-merous; pedicels (6)9–12(14) mm long, erect, green, occasionally red below calyx, densely tomentose. Calyx of 5 sepals, lobes green, sometimes red toward base, narrowly ovate, 4–6 mm long, 2–2.5(4) mm wide. Corolla lobes red, obovate, 7.5–8.5 mm long, 5–6 mm wide. Filaments 3.5–4 mm long, red; anthers 1 mm long. Ovary superior; styles 3.5–4.5 mm long.

Fruit: Capsules globose; 5–6.5(7) mm long. Seeds dark brown; irregularly shaped; 1.2–1.8 mm long.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Growing on vertical wet; mossy; or rocky cliffs;.

Elevation Range: ca. 720 m.