Suffrutescent herbs, epiphytic; stems 2.5 mm in diam., orange brown hirsute. Leaves of a pair subequal; blades suborbicular, ovate or oblong, 1.8-2.4 cm long and 9-12 mm wide, the apex obtuse to acute, rounded to cuneate at the base, the margin subentire, above green and densely pilose, the hairs trans-parent, 4-5 celled, below green, densely pilose, the hairs transparent, 4-7 celled, also 2-3 celled white adpressed hairs especially on the veins and the margins of the leaf; petioles 3-5 mm long. Flowers solitary; bracts linear triangular, 1 mm long; pedicels 2-3 mm long, transparent to orange pilose glandular; calyx lobes lanceolate to oblong linear, 8-11 mm long, acuminate, green or reddish, orange or transparent hirsute, the margin remotely toothed to subentire; corollas orange red, funnel shaped but strongly zygomorphic, 6.5-7.0 cm long, ca. 4 mm in diam. above the base, becoming ca. 12 mm in diam. at the throat, the outside red hirsute, more or less glandular, the lobed portion of corolla 2.7 cm long, the lobes strongly unequal, the posterior pair connate, submucronate, ca. 1.8 cm long, the anterior lobe ca. 1.2 cm long, spreading; filaments red, glandular pilose to minutely pilose; ovary white pilose, the style yellow, more or less glandular, the stigma stomatomorphic. Fruit 1.5 cm in diam., white, pilose. Chromosomes 2n = 18 (Lee, 1962).
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