Suffrutescent herbs, epiphytic; stems 4-5 mM in diam., brown purple villous. Leaves of a pair unequal, the larger leaf lanceolate, 11.3-13.6 cm long and ca. 3.5 cm wide, abruptly acuminate at the apex, oblique at the base, serrulate crenu-late, above green, glabrous, red spotted, blotched or concolorous red purple beneath, sericeous strigose, the hairs transparent, 4-5 celled, more numerous especially on the veins, also 2-3 celled transparent appressed; petioles 2-5 mm long; smaller leaves lanceolate, 1.2-1.8 cm long and ca. 5 mm wide, acuminate, serrate, green above and beneath. Flowers solitary; bracts lanceolate, 6-8 mm long, sericeous strigose; pedicels ca. 2.3 cm long; calyx lobes pectinate, ca. 2 cm long, 6-7 toothed, the teeth linear to 6 mm long, reddish, reddish pilose; corollas yellow with reddish lobes, funnelform, ca. 2.0 cm long, ca. 3 mm in diam. above the base, becoming ca. 5 mm in diam. at the throat, the outside red pilose, the lobed portion 2-3 mm long, the lobes slightly unequal, the lobes spreading, rounded; filaments not seen, the anthers included; disc gland not seen; ovary pilose, the style glandular papillose, the stigma stomatomorphic. Fruits ca. 7 mm in diam. (immature).
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