Terrestrial and epiphytic herbs and shrubs; stems woody below, 4.5-9.0 mm in diam., brown strigose, the bark sometimes red. Leaves of a pair strongly unequal, the larger leaves oblanceolate, 17.7-26.2 cm long and 4.2-5.2 cm wide, acuminate, attenuate and oblique at the base, entire, above dark green, glabrous, below green, lacking red spots, strigose, the hairs brown, 3-6 celled, more numerous on the veins, also few 2-3 celled white adpressed hairs; petioles 9-16 mm long; the smaller leaves lanceolate, 1.4-1.7 cm long and 3-4 mm wide, acuminate, oblique at the base, green. Flowers several in each axil; bracts ovate, 1.5-1.9 cm long, acute, entire, orange red, glabrous above; pedicels 1-4 mm long, reddish strigose; calyx lobes lanceolate, 1.6-1.9 cm long, acuminate, slightly serrate, serrations 6-7, red, reddish strigose; corollas yellow to orange scarlet, tubular, 2.0-2.5 cm long, ca. 4 mm in diam. above the base, becoming ca. 5 mm in diam. at the middle, slightly contracted in the throat, the limb lobes sub-regular, erect, to ca. 3 mm long, the outside coarsely yellowish sericeous; fila-ments glabrous, the anthers included; ovary strigose at the apex, the style glabrous. Fruits ovoid, orange.
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