Botany
Salumget is an erect, densely hairy shrub 1 to 4 meters in height. Branchlets are four-angled. Leaves are thin, ovate to broadly ovate, 12 to 31 centimeters long, and 9 to 20 centimeters wide, with pointed tip and somewhat heart-shaped base, and entire or toothed magrins; the upper surface is glandular, and the lower, covered with very dense, soft hairs. Inflorescences are paniculate, compact, terminal, 13 to 30 centimeters long, and composed of numerous white flowers. Calyx tube is oblong, with five toothed lobes. Corolla-tube is funnel-shaped, about 2 centimeters long, hairy, divided into oblong lobes, and twice the length of the calyx. Stamens are longers than the corolla.

Distribution
- Found only in the Philippines, chiefly in secondary forests along streams at low altitudes, in Panay, Negros, Cebu, and Mindanao.

Parts used
Leaves

Uses
Folkloric
Leaves used for stomachache.

Availability
Wild-crafted.