Epiphytic herbs or subshrubs; stems to 1 m tall, 2-3 mm in diam., woody toward the base, green to red, red to orange hispid, glandular hairs more or less present. Leaves of a pair unequal or subequal; larger blade of the pair elliptic oblong, subfalcate, 4.5-11.4 cm long and 1.7-4.4 cm wide, the apex acuminate, oblique at the base, entire to crenate serrate, membranous, above green appressed hairs sometimes reddish, 5-9 celled, sometimes sparse, below green, hirsute, the hairs often reddish, 5-9 celled, more numerous on the veins, also 2-4 celled glandular hairs; petioles 5-12 mm long; smaller leaves elliptic to ovate, 1.3-4.7 cm long and 0.8-2.2 cm wide, acute to obtuse, oblique to rounded at the base, green, reddish hirsute. Flowvers 1-3 in each axil; bracts about 3 mm long, linear, acuminate, reddish pilose; pedicels 1.1-2.2 cm long, reddish hirsute; calyx lobes lanceolate, 1.6-3.3 cm long, acute, 1-6 toothed, the teeth to 1 mm long, the lobes green, red or orange, red hirsute; corollas orange or red, tubular, 2.1-3.9 cm long, ca. 4 mm in diam. above the base, becoming ca. 8 mm in diam. above, not noticeably contracted at the throat, appendages between the lobes sometimes hidden by hairs, externally coarsely red sericeous, internally glabrous, the lobes subregular, erect, ca. 4 mm long, the lobes transparent or yellow sericeous; filaments glabrous, the anthers in-cluded; ovary pilose, the style glabrous, the stigma bibbed. Fruit white when mature.
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