Terrestrial or epiphytic subshrub, to 2 m tall, rarely taller. Stem woody at base, succulent above, erect or ascending, tomentose to hirsute at apex, becoming glabrescent below. Leaves strongly unequal in a pair; petiole 0.4-1.8 cm long, tomentose; blade papyraceous when dry, oblanceolate, larger blade 15.5-32.6 x 5.4-10.7 cm, margin serrate to dentate, apex acuminate, base obliquely cuneate, above hirsute to strigose, hairs transparent but occasionally reddish towards margins, below tomentose to hirsute, hairs transparent. Flowers solitary, or up to several in fasciculate inflorescences; pedicel 0.2-0.5 cm long, reddish hirsute. Calyx campanulate, greenish-white to orange or scarlet, lobes nearly free, erect, subequal, lanceolate, 1.3-2.1 x 0.3-0.6 cm, margin laciniate or 3-6-toothed, apex acuminate to obtuse, outside whitish or reddish hirsute, inside hirsute; corolla slightly oblique in calyx, yellow, 2-3 cm long, tube cylindric, 1.8-2.7 cm long, base subgibbous, above base ca. 0.4 cm wide, middle slightly ventricose, throat slightly contracted, 0.5-0.6 cm wide, outside reddish to golden hirsute, inside pubescent, limb 0.5-0.6 cm wide, lobes subequal, erect, ovate, 0.2-0.4 x 0.2-0.3 cm, margin entire; stamens included, adnate to base of corolla tube; staminode very small; ovary ovoid, 0.4-0.5 x 0.2-0.3 cm, hirsute to pilose, style ca. 2.5 cm long, glabrous, stigma shortly 2-lobed. Mature berry white to orange, subglobose, ca. 1.8 x 1 cm.
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