Epiphytic shrub to 1 m tall, glabrous throughout; stem base to 1.5 cm in diam-eter; branches terete or subterete, smooth or somewhat striate when immature, reddish brown, bark reddish or grayish brown. Leaves elliptic or ovate elliptic, (3.5-)5-11.5 cm long, 2-7 cm wide, basally rounded or somewhat subcordate, apically acute or broadly obtuse, dull olive brown and shining when dry; incon-spicuously 3-5(-7)-plinerved, the midrib impressed above, raised beneath, prominent on both the surfaces, the primary lateral nerves thin, raised on both the surfaces, far removed from the midrib, the secondary nerves thick, raised and conspicuous above causing the leaf to appear pinnately veined; petioles terete, rugose, 1-4 mm long, 1-3 mm in diameter. Inflorescences tightly con-gested racemes, 8-16 flowered basally encircled by striate bracts, the rachis bluntly angled, smooth or striate, often muricate, 1.5-4 cm long, ca. 2 mm in diam-eter at anthesis, elongating to 6 cm in the fruit; floral bracts conspicuously striate, concave, elliptic, ovate elliptic or obovate, rarely semiorbicular, basally rounded to truncate, slightly auriculate, apically acute, sometimes broadly so, the margins often so tightly revolute that the bracts appear sharply acuminate, (13-)15-20 mm long (6-)8-12(-18) mm wide, rose or salmon pink or pale green with a pinkish hue, marginally glandular fimbriate, the fimbriae early caducous, the bracts persisting as the berry matures; pedicels subterete, 1-1.5(-3) mm long, 1-1.5 mm in diameter; bracteoles striate, concave basally, ovate lanceolate or oblong, apically rounded or acute, 11-13 (-17) mm long, (3-) 5-7 mm broad, marginally glandular fimbriate, tightly imbricate in bud, completely enclosing the calyx, often persistent in fruit. Flowers with the calyx 8-12(-15) mm long, pink, the tube barrel-shaped or globose at anthesis, smooth or slightly rugose, not enlarged, 2-4.5(-5) mm long, 2-4 mm in diameter, the limb cylindric, striate, (3.5-) 5-7 (-9) mm long including the lobes, the lobes triangular or nearly oblong, acute, or apiculate, 1.5-2 mm long and broad, erect after anthesis, marginally glandular fimbriate and slightly scarious, the sinus acute to obtuse, corolla tubular, slightly wider medially, conspicuously striate, 11.5-16 mm long, 3.5-4 mm in diameter, pale green with a yellow tip, the lobes oblong, bluntly acute, 2-3.5 mm long, slightly thickened at the tip, erect at anthesis; stamens 9.5-13 mm long, the filaments coherent at base, distally pubescent, alternately 2.5-4 mm, 3.5-5 mm long, the anthers including the tubules alternately 7-10.5 mm and 8.5-12 mm long, the thecae 2-3.5 mm long; style 11.5-14.5 mm long. Berry 15 mm in diameter.
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