Description

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Growth Form: Apparently sprawling shrubs.

Stems: Bark reddish brown, striate, young stems rusty tomentose, soon glabrate.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Whorled (3 leaves per node) well-spaced on the stem. Blades elliptic–obovate, obovate, or oblanceolate, 38–80 mm long, 18–50 mm wide. Apex abruptly acuminate. Base cuneate, sessile. Upper surfaces with a few scattered hairs when young, soon glabrate; lower surfaces sparsely rusty pilose at least when young, blades thin, coriaceous. Margins weakly revolute. Secondary and tertiary veins prominent. Petioles (1)2-3(5) mm long, red at base. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers solitary in leaf axils. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic, 6–7-merous, pedicels 20–35 mm long, rusty pilose, bracteate, bracteoles absent. Calyx of 5 sepals, lobes narrowly lanceolate, 8–9 mm long. Corolla probably purple, campanulate, ca. 10–12 mm long, the lobes obovate, imbricate. Stamens as many as and opposite the corolla lobes; filaments connate at base, adnate to corolla tube; anthers dithecal. Ovary superior, 1-celled; ovule placentation free-central; style 1.

Fruit: Capsules not seen. Seeds not seen.

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