Suffrutescent herbs, epiphytic; stems 2-3 mM in diam., pale or dark brown tomentose. Leaves of a pair equal; blades elliptic to ovate elliptic, 1.5-2.8 cm long and 6-15 mm wide, fleshy, acute, decurrent at the base, entire, above green, tomentose, the hairs transparent, 3-4 celled, below green, tomentose, the hairs transparent, 4-7 celled, more pronounced on the veins, also 2-3 celled white appressed hairs, sometimes sparse; petioles 1-4 mm long. Flowers solitary or in 2s; bracts lanceolate, 3-5 mm long, tomentose; pedicels 8-13 mm long, red, creamy or reddish tomentose sericeous; calyx lobes ovate, 7.5-10 mm long, acuminate, more or less toothed, the teeth 4-6, to 2 mm long, green tinged with red, sericeous especially on the midribs; corolla red or orange sometimes with yellow running from the sinuses of the anterior lobe to the base of the corolla, funnelform but strongly zygomorphic, 4.0-4.7 cm long, ca. 2 mm in diam. above the base, becoming ca. 5 mm in diam. at the throat, externally reddish pilose, the lobed portion of the corolla 1.5-2.2 cm long, the lobes strongly unequal, the posterior pair connate, obtuse at the apex, 9-12 mm long, the anterior lobe 7-9 mm long, reflexed; filaments reddish, glabrous, the anthers exserted; ovary puberulous, the style yellow or reddish, pilose glandular, the stigma bilobed. Fruits white.
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