Terrestrial or epiphytic subshrub, 0.3-0.5 m long or more. Stem succulent, climbing or pendent, sarmentose, sericeous-strigose near apex, becoming glabrous below. Leaves equal to subequal in a pair; petiole 0.2-1.1 cm long, sericeous-strigose; blade papyraceous or chartaceous when dry, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 1.5-6.5 x 0.9-3.8 cm, margin entire to remotely crenate-dentate, apex acute or obtuse, base cuneate or rounded, above glabrous to strigose or subtomentose, below glabrous to strigose or subtomentose. Flowers in fasciculate 1-3-flowered inflorescences; pedicel 0.8-2 cm long, sericeous-strigose. Calyx campanulate, green or reddish, lobes free or lateral and ventral lobes connate 0.1-0.2 cm, tube 0.1-0.2 cm long, free portion of lobes erect, subequal, ovate-lanceolate to linear, 0.8-1.7 x 0.1-0.4 cm, margin entire at base or with a few teeth, apex acuminate, subulate or acute, outside strigose, inside strigose; corolla erect in calyx, red, 4.3-7 cm long, tube cylindric, 2.3-4.9 cm long, base gibbous, 0.15-0.4 cm wide, middle slightly ampliate, throat not contracted, 0.5-0.9 cm wide, outside pilosulous, inside sparsely pubescent on dorsal side, limb ca. 2.5 cm wide, lobes strongly unequal, upper lobes connate into a galea, erect, 1.3-1.8 x 1-1.1 cm, margin entire, lateral lobes spreading, triangular, 0.7-0.9 x 0.7-1 cm, margin entire, basal lobe reflexed, lanceolate, 1.2-1.5 x 0.25-0.4 cm, margin entire; stamens exserted, adnate to base of corolla tube; staminode absent; ovary ovoid, 0.3-0.35 x 0.15-0.25 cm, appressed-pubescent or glabrous, style ca. 4.5 cm long, pubescent, stigma 2-lobed. Mature berry white, globose, ca. 0.8 x 0.8 cm.
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