Suffrutescent herbs, epiphytic; stems 2-3 mm in diam., reddish hirsute villous at the apex. Leaves of a pair unequal, the larger leaf lanceolate to ob-lanceolate, 7.5-10.5 cm long and 1.5-2.5 cm wide, the apex acuminate, rounded or acuminate at the base, remotely denticulate to entire, green and glabrous above, below green and sericeous strigose, the hairs transparent 3-9 celled, more numerous on the veins; petioles 2-5 mm long; smaller leaves lanceolate, to ca. 1.0 cm long, green. Flowers solitary, the bracts linear, ca. 3 mm long, entire, hirsute; pedicels ca. 3 cm long, reddish hirsute; calyx lobes pectinate, ca. 2.0 cm long, 8-9 toothed, the teeth to ca. 6 mm long, reddish, reddish hirsute; corollas scarlet, ventricose, ca. 3.7 cm long, ca. 3 mm in diam. above the base, becoming ca. 10 mm in diam. in the middle and contracted to 6 mm at the throat, the outside reddish pilose, the lobes slightly unequal, the posterior pair 3 mm long, others ca. 5 mm long; filaments not seen, the anthers included; ovary pilose.
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