Woody based herbs or subshrubs, epiphytic; stems 2-5 mm in diam., green to reddish, more or less transparent strigose when young. Leaves of a pair sub-equal, ovate elliptic to lanceolate, 1.8-3.7 cm long and 8-18 cm wide, fleshy, acute or rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base, entire, green above, glabrous, beneath pale green to red, strigose, hairs transparent, 4-7 celled, more numerous on the veins, both adpressed and erect, also 2-3 celled white appressed hairs; petioles 2-6 mm long. Flowers solitary; bracts, 3-6 mm long, linear, strigose; pedicels 5-13 mm long, green or reddish transparent or reddish adpressed pilose; calyx lobes ovate lanceolate, 8-19 mm long, acuminate, entire to remotely denticulate, green or reddish, sparsely strigose but more dense on the midrib; corollas scarlet or orange red, often with yellow running from sinuses of the anterior lobe to the base of the corolla, funnelform but strongly zygomorphic, 4.5-7.0 cm long, ca. 3 mm in diam. above base, becoming ca. 6(-10) mm in diam. at the throat, the lobes strongly unequal, posterior pair connate, apiculate, 7-16 mm long, the lobed portion of the corolla 2.2-3.3 cm long, the anterior lobe 1.2-1.9 cm long, reflexed, externally sparsely reddish pilose; filaments red, glabrous or rarely glandular, the anthers exserted; ovary pilose, the style exserted, ca. 6 cm long, yellow or reddish, glandular pilose, the stigma bilobed. Fruits ovoid, ca. 1.4 cm in diam., white; seeds fusiform, yellow brown. Chromosomes 2n = 18 (Lee, 1962).
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