Epiphytic subshrubs or vinelike herbs; stems spreading, pendent, or climbing by adventitious roots at the nodes, 1-2 mm long, ca. 6 mm in diam., reddish brown, sericeous; branches few. Leaves unequal in a pair, the larger leaves elliptic to subfalcate, 6.1-8.8 cm long, 2.4-3.2 cm wide, the apex acuminate, the base oblique, entire, above green, sparsely strigose, below reddish purple, sparsely strigillose to gabrous; petiole 3-6 mm long; smaller leaves ca. 4 cm long, 2 cm wide. Inflorescences axillary, of 1(-2) flowers; peduncles lacking; bracts lanceolate, 5 mm long; pedicels ca. 4 cm long, reddish, sericeous. Flowers with the calyx lobes nearly equal, lanceolate, 1.2-1.5 cm long, 6-8 mm wide, the apex acuminate, the margin strongly serrate on each side, red, sericeous at the base; corolla red with a yellow limb, the tube erect in the calyx, slightly gibbous at the base, slightly ventricose at the middle, and barely narrowed toward the limb, 2.8-3.8 cm long, sericeous outside, the inside glandular, the lobes of the limb nearly equal, erect, narrowly triangular, 5-8 mm long, the 2 apical lobes connate for a short distance; stamens included, the filaments 7-15 mm long, glabrous, the anthers oblong, free; disc reduced to a bibbed posterior glabrous gland; ovary ovoid, sericeous, the style ca. 1.5 cm long, glabrous; stigma stomatomorphic. Mature fruit not seen.
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