Epiphytic herbs or subshrubs; stems erect or ascending, somewhat zig-zag, 30-35 cm long, 3-5 mm in diam., reddish, densely hirsute. Leaves strongly un-equal in a pair, the larger leaf broadly elliptic, 4.5-9.5 cm long, 2-5 cm wide, chartaceous, the apex acute to obtuse, the base acute, oblique, serrulate, above dark green, strigose to pilose, below green or reddish; petioles 0.5-10 mm long, hirsute; smaller leaves much reduced, lanceolate, to 1 cm long. Inflorescences in the upper axils, of 2-5 flowers, the peduncles lacking; bracts minute; pedicels nearly sessile, less than 5 mm long, red, hirsute to sericeous. Flowers in-conspicuous; calyx lobes distinct, unequal, orange to red, densely hirsute, the posterior lobe erect, lanceolate, 5-7 mm long, entire, the other lobes broadly ovate, 7-9 mm long, denticulate; corolla yellow, erect in the calyx, the tube gibbous at the base, cylindric above, not ventricose, 7-8 mm long, the outside sericeous, inside glabrous, the limb nearly regular, ca. 3 mm across, the lobes erect, 1 mm long; stamens included, the filaments glabrous, the anthers minute, ca. 1 mm long; disc of a single or bibbed gland; ovary pilose; style glabrous, the stigma bibbed. Fruit depressed globose, white, pilose, surrounded by the persistent calyx; seeds oblong, less than 1 mm long, striate, light brown.
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