Epiphytic subshrubs or shrubs; stems erect, ascending, or pendent, ca. 0.5 m long and 1 cm in diam. below, rooting from the prominent nodes, the internodes reddish, sericeous above, scaly below. Leaves nearly equal in a pair, elliptic, 4.5-8.5 cm long, 1.2-3.0 cm wide, membranous, the apex acute, the base cuneate, not oblique, entire, above dark green, strigillose, below lighter green with green or pinkish prominent veins, sericeous; petioles 1-2 cm long, green or reddish, sericeous. Inflorescences axillary, often at the nodes of fallen leaves somewhat below the apex, cymose but few flowered; peduncles lacking; bracts reddish, sericeous; pedicels 2-3 mm long. Flowers with the calyx lobes erect, narrowly lanceolate, 0.6-1.2 cm long, acuminate, toothed, almost laciniate, pink, sericeous; corolla yellow or yellow orange, erect in the calyx, the tube gibbous at the base, curved, slender, ca. 2 cm long and 4 mm wide at the middle, sericeous with red-dish hairs, the lobes triangular; stamens included or rarely exserted, the filaments glabrous, the anthers orbiculate; disc reduced to 4 or 5 glands; ovary ovoid, pubescent, the style sparsely pubescent, the stigma bibbed. Berry white, pilose, surrounded by the persistent calyx; seeds oblong, striate, dark brown, shiny.
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