Epiphytic suffrutescent herb or subshrub, to 1 m long. Stem woody at base, succulent above, pendent, creeping or erect, pubescent or strigose when young. Leaves equal in a pair or whorl; petiole 0.1-0.2 cm long, pubescent; blade chartaceous or coriaceous when dry, ovate, elliptic-ovate, to oblong, 1.2-2.9(-3.7) x 0.2-1.2 cm, margin entire, subrevolute, apex obtuse to acuminate, base rounded to cuneate, above glabrous, below sparsely strigose. Flowers solitary in reduced fasciculate inflorescences; pedicel 1-4 cm long, pubescent to strigose. Calyx campanulate, green to red, lobes free, erect, subequal, ovate-lanceolate, 0.9-1.8 x 0.4-1.1 cm, margin toothed near base or nearly entire, apex long acuminate, outside pubescent, inside sparsely pubescent; corolla erect in calyx, scarlet or red, 2.5-5.5 cm long, tube funnelform, 1.5-2.5 cm long, base gibbous, above base 0.2-0.4 cm wide, middle slightly ventricose, throat not contracted, 0.7-0.9 cm wide, outside pilose, inside glabrous, limb ca. 3 cm wide, lobes strongly unequal, upper lobes connate into a galea, erect, 1-2 x 0.7-1.5 cm, margin entire, lateral lobes spreading, triangular, 0.5-1.1 x 0.5-1 cm [at base], margin entire, basal lobe reflexed, triangular, 1.2-1.6 x 0.3-0.4 cm wide, margin entire; stamens exserted, adnate to base of corolla tube; staminode absent; ovary ovoid, 0.3-0.4 x 0.2-0.3 cm, pubescent to sericeous, style ca. 5 cm long, pilose glandular, stigma 2-lobed. Mature berry white, subglobose, 0.6-0.8 x 0.6-0.8 cm.
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Suffrutescent herbs, epiphytic; stems 1.5-3 mm in diam., strigose when young. Leaves of a pair equal, elliptic ovate, 1.2-1.6 cm long and 7-10 mm wide, the apex obtuse to acute, rounded at the base, entire, succulent, above green, glabrous, below paler green, sparsely strigose, the hairs transparent, 3-5 celled especially numerous on the veins, also 2-3 celled white or transparent hairs; petioles 1 mm long. Flowers solitary; bracts ca. 5 mm long; pedicels ca. 10 mm long, strigose; calyx lobes ovate, 10-15 mm long, long acuminate, 2-3 toothed, the teeth to 1 mm long, green or tinged red, strigose; corolla scarlet or red with yellow areas running from sinuses of the anterior lobe to the base of the tube, funnelform, but strongly zygomorphic, ca. 6.7 cm long, ca. 4 mm in diam. above the base, becoming ca. 9 mm in diam. at the throat, the outside red pilose, the lobed portion of the corolla 3.1-3.6 cm long, the lobes strongly unequal, the posterior pair connate, truncate at the apex, ca. 1.8 cm long, the anterior lobe ca. 1.5 cm long, reflexed; filaments reddish or yellow, glabrous, the anthers exserted; ovary sericeous, the style yellow, pilose glandular, the stigma bibbed. Fruits not seen. Chromosomes 2n 18 (Fussell, 1958).
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