Epiphytic herbs; stems pendent, elongate, slender, 2-2.5 mm in diam., reddish strigose. Leaves of a pair subequal; blades narrowly oblong to lanceolate, 2.3-3.5 cm long and 7-9 mm wide, the apex acute to acuminate, rounded at the base, entire, above green, sparsely strigose, hairs reddish, 5-6 celled, also 2-3 celled white adpressed hairs, below green, sparsely strigose, hairs reddish, 5-6 celled, 2-3 celled white adpressed hairs especially on the veins; petioles 1-2 mm long. Flowers solitary; bracts linear, 2 mm long; pedicels 5-7 mm long, brownish red hirsute; calyx lobes laciniately 4-5 toothed, the teeth to 3 mm long, the lobes 9-12 mm long, red or reddish, red hirsute; corollas scarlet or rose, funnelform, but strongly zygomorphic, 6.1-6.8 cm long, ca. 3 mm in diam. above the base, becoming ca. 9 mm in diam. at the throat, the outside reddish pilose, the limb 2.0-2.6 cm long, the lobes strongly unequal, the posterior pair connate, slightly apiculate at the apex, 1.3-1.5 cm long, the anterior lobe 1.0-1.3 cm long, re-flexed; filaments red, glabrous, the anthers exserted; ovary sericeous, the style red, pilose glandular, the stigma bibbed. Fruits not seen. Chromosomes 2n = 18 (Lee and Grear, 1963).
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