Epiphytic shrub or tree to 8 m tall; twigs relatively slender, drying dark gray or slightly reddish, the internodes mostly short, sap milky. Leaves obovate, api-cally rounded, basally cuneate, the midrib prominent in the proximal half, the lateral veins strongly ascending, distinct, sometimes appearing in two series, forming an even submarginal vein ca. 2 mm from the margin, stiffly coriaceous, on drying the margins mostly not revolute, becoming thin and somewhat discolor-ous, drying smooth, often with a pinkish cast; petioles ca. 5 mm long, broad but not conspicuously clasping the stems, not drying dark. Inflorescence terminal, the uppermost pair of leaves sometimes reduced and bracteate, few-flowered; peduncle mostly less than 2 cm long, sometimes sparingly branched, sharply angled, each node with a pair of sturdy, scale-like bracts 2-3 mm long. Flowers with the sepals ca. 7 in 2 series, the outer pair opposite, bract like, obtuse, 4 mm long, the inner series rotund, 1-1.5 cm across; petals white ca. 7 spathulate, erose, 2.3 cm long, ca. 2 cm wide apically; androecium of pistillate flower a caducous ring or frustum ca. 6 mm tall; ovary turbinoid, the stigmas 6-8, drying black, forming a hemispherical cushion on top of the ovary. Fruit red or pink, turbinoid to globose, 3 cm across, the styles triangular, sessile, connivent up to the very top of the fruit.
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