Subshrubs; stems erect, to 1 m tall, slender, ca. 5 mm in diam., probably broader near base, internodes to 8 cm long, reddish or green above, strigrose to hirsute, below brown to gray, glabrescent. Leaves opposite, subequal to unequal, elliptic to broadly elliptic or obovate, 4.5-10.0 cm long, 2.2-4.2 cm wide, memn-branous, the apex acuminate, the base cuneate, the margin entire, above dark green, strigose or hirsute, below lighter green, strigillose, especially along the prominent veins; petioles 0.6-2.2 cm long, strigose. Inflorescences single flowers in the upper leaf axils; peduncles lacking; pedicels slender, erect, 2.5-4.0 cm long, 1 mm thick, broader toward apex, hirsute. Flowers showy; calyx lobes erect, lanceolate, 1.7-2.4 cm long, to 4 mm wide, the apex attenuate, the midvein prominent and thick, the lateral veins parallel, the margin thin, translucent, entire, green, both sides strigillose; corolla orange, equalling or shorter than the calyx lobes, the tube slightly oblique in the calyx, funnelform, ca. 2.2 cm long, 5 mm in diam. at the base, 10 mm in diam. at the throat, slightly ventricose above the middle, the outside pilose or strigose, the inside pubescent, the limb lobes rotund, ca. 7 mm across, entire; stamens included, the filaments curved, adnate to the base of the corolla tube ca. 1 cm, free part ca. 5 mm long, the anthers broadly sagittate, 2 mm long, 3 mm wide; disc annular, surrounding the base of the ovary, irregularly lobed; ovary oblong, 5 mm long, 3 mm in diam., hirsute above the middle, the style, ca. 1.2 cm long, densely puberulent, the stigma stomatomorphic. Mature berry and seeds not seen; immature fruit surrounded by the persistent calyx lobes.
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