Epiphytic or terrestrial subshrubs; stems erect or ascending to 45 cm long, strigillose toward the apex, glabrescent. below. Leaves strongly unequal in a pair; the larger leaves elliptic or oblong, 4.5-10.5 cm long, 1.5-3.0 cm wide, subcoriaceous, the apex acuminate, the base acute, oblique, the margin subentire, ciliate, above dark green, glabrous, below lighter green, sparsely sericeous, the veins prominent; petioles 0-4 mm long, sericeous; smaller leaves much reduced, often caducous. Inflorescences of 1-3 flowers in an axillary cyme; peduncles lacking; bracts small, lanceolate; pedicels to 1 cm long, reddish, sericeous with whitish hairs. Flowers showy; calyx lobes free nearly to the base, nearly equal, lanceolate to ovate, 1.2-1.8 cm long, 5-8 mm wide, acuminate, deeply serrate to laciniate, green, or suffused with red, or red maculate near the midvein, sericeous; corolla bright red, yellow or white at the sinuses of the lower lobe, the tube erect in the calyx, curved, ca. 7.5 cm long, with a short spur, the outside pilose with long reddish hairs and mixed with shorter hairs, inside glandular, galea 1.0-1.5 cm. long, 2.0-2.3 cm wide, the lateral lobes ca. 8 mm long and wide, the basal lobe oblong, reflexed, ca. 2 cm long; stamens with filaments slender, ca. 6 cm long, reddish, glabrous, the anthers oblong, ca. 4 mm long, coherent apically into 2 pairs; disc reduced to a bibbed dorsal gland; ovary pilose, the style ca. 6.5 cm long, pilose above, the stigma bibbed. Berry sub-globose, ca. 1.5 cm in diam.; seeds fusiform, ca. 1 mm long, striate.
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