Epiphytic or terrestrial shrubs, 1-3 m tall; stem base 2.5-5 cm in diameter; mature branches arching, terete, striate, glabrous; bark tan to grayish brown; immature branches and twigs of the new growth subterete or flattened with blunt angles, striate, reddish brown, densely puberulous and often with short, reddish, glandular fimbriae. Leaves slightly bullate when fresh, drying bullate or flat, lanceolate, ovate or lance elliptic, (3.5-)6-12.5 cm long, (1-)2-4 cm wide, basally rounded or obtuse, rarely subcordate, apically acuminate, tan or olive brown when dry, puberulous above along the proximal portions of the midrib and the lateral nerves, glabrous beneath; 3-5-plinerved, the midrib and the lateral nerves impressed above, the veinlets raised and conspicuous above, the midrib and the lateral nerves raised and conspicuous beneath, veinlets plane or raised but obscure beneath; petioles subterete, smooth, striate, or commonly rugose, 2-5 mm long, 0.5-1.5 mm in diameter, densely puberulous adaxially, reddish brown. Inflorescence (8-)17-32(-45)-flowered with the lowermost nodes bracteolate but sterile; rachis subterete, striate, weakly muricate, glabrous, 4-15(-20) cm long, 1.2 mm in diameter, rose pink at anthesis but turning whitish or pale green; floral bracts muricate, glabrous, oblong, obovate, or oblanceolate, 7-13 mm long, 3.5-6.5(-10) mm wide, basally narrowed, apically obtuse to broadly rounded, rarely acute, marginally scarious and glandular fimbriate, the bract concave, oriented perpendicular to or somewhat recurved with respect to the rachis, deep rose pink; pedicels swollen distally, striate, 10-17 mm long at anthesis, 0.5-1 mm in diameter, 10-22(-26) mm long in fruit, rose pink at anthesis but turning whitish or pale green, provided with reddish, glandular fimbriae 0.3 mm long when young, these caducous; bracteoles oblong to ovate, 1-2.5 mm long, 0.5-1(-2) mm broad, basally slightly auriculate, mar-ginally glandular fimbriate, rose pink. Flowers with the calyx 2.5-3.5 mm long, green in bud, dark wine red at anthesis, later turning green, the tube cylindric but slightly pentagonal in cross section, rugose, 0.5-1 mm long, 2.5-3(-4) mm in diameter, basally slightly expanded, densely covered in bud by reddish, glan-dular fimbriae, the limb broadly campanulate, muricate, 1.5-3 mm long in-cluding the lobes, densely glandular fimbriate, these fimbriae usually persisting to fruit, the lobes triangular or oblong, (0.2-)0.5-1 mm long, connivent after anthesis, marginally thin and glandular fimbriate, sinuses acute in bud, be-coming broadly rounded to flat at anthesis; corolla bottle-shaped, bluntly 5-angled opposite calyx lobes, constricted basally, (6.5-)8-10(-12) mm long, 5.5-6.5 mm in diameter at the widest point, the tube with scattered glandular fimbriae, white for lowest 2/%, dark rose red in the upper 1/3 plus the limb and the lobes, the lobes oblong, acute, slightly flaring at anthesis; stamens alternately either 6-7 mm or 7-8.5 mm long, the filaments densely puberulous in distal half, alternately either 1.5-3 mm or 2.5-4 mm long, white to pinkish white, the anthers including tubules alternately 4-5.5 mm and 5.5-7 mm long, orangish brown to maroon, the thecae 1.5-3 mm long; style 8-9 mm long. Berry glabrous, 6-7 mm in diameter.
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