Epiphytic herbs or subshrubs; stems erect, ascending, or spreading, to 40 cm long, to 1 cm in diam., the internodes villous hirsute; branches few. Leaves unequal in a pair; larger leaves oblanceolate, 15-20 cm long, 6-8 cm wide, coriaceous, the apex acuminate, the base oblique, the margin denticulate, above and below pilose; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm long, hirsute; smaller leaves similar but smaller, ca. 3 cm long, and 1 cm wide. Inflorescences axillary, cymose, few flowered; peduncles lacking; bracts lanceolate, ca. 1 cm long, 0.4 cm wide; pedicels 0.7-1.0 cm long, densely villous. Flowers with the calyx lobes narrowly lanceolate and laciniate or pectinate, ca. 3.2 cm long, and 2 cm wide, the teeth 5-6 on each side, narrow, each ca. 1 cm long, red, pilose to sericeous; corolla red or yellow striped, erect in the calyx, the tube gibbous at the base, 3.4-4.2 cm long, ca. 1 cm wide, the outside pilose above, the lobes of the limb triangular, ca. 2 mm long and wide, red, inside glabrous; stamens not exserted, the filaments 2.5-3.5 cm long, adnate for ca. 1 mm to corolla tube, glabrous, the anthers oblong; disc reduced to a bilobed posterior gland; ovary apex pilose, the style 2-3 cm long, glabrous, the stigma stomatomorphic. Fruits not seen.
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