Epiphytic herbs or subshrubs; stems erect, ascending or spreading, to 40 cm long, 4-6 mm in diam., green, sericeous, becoming tawny. Leaves nearly equal in a pair, narrowly elliptic, 5.5-8.5 cm long, 1.0-2.2 cm wide, the apex acute to acuminate, the base cuneate or decurrent into the petiole, nearly entire, above and below green, occasionally pink on the veins, sericeous; petioles 3-9 mm long, sericeous. Inflorescences axillary, single flowered; peduncles lacking; bracts linear, ca. 6 mm long, sericeous; pedicels ca. 1 cm long, green, sericeous. Flowers showy, the calyx lobes nearly equal, lanceolate, 1.5-1.9 cm long, acuminate, serrate to laciniate with 5 or 6 teeth, each ca. 3 mm long, outside green, sericeous, the inside glabrous; corolla red, the sinuses of the lobes and throat streaked yellow, the tube erect in the calyx, ca. 7.5 cm long, gibbous at the base, ampliate toward the limb, the outside sparsely pilose, the inside glandular, the limb sub-erect, galea truncate, 1.6 cm long, ca. 2.2 cm wide, the lateral lobes triangular, ca. 1.2 cm long, the basal lobe oblong, ca. 1.8 cm long, 1 cm wide; stamens reach-ing the galea, the filaments curved, 5.5 cm long, adnate to the corolla tube base for ca. 1 mm, reddish, glandular pubescent, the anthers oblong, ca. 3 mm long; disc reduced to a bilobed posterior white gland; ovary sericeous, the style ca. 6.5 cm long, glandular pilose, the stigma stomatomnorphic to bilobed. Fruits not seen.
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