Epiphytic shrub. Leaves alternate, estipulate, coriaceous, entire, plinerved. Inflorescence of solitary, axillary, pendulous flowers; pedicels 4-6 times as long as the flower and continuous with it; bracts and bracteoles glandular fim-briate. Flowers with the hypanthium glabrous, terete; calyx lobes 5, erect; corolla campanulate cylindric, 5-6-parted; stamens 10-12, the filaments distinct, ciliate, narrowing to a connective which extends to the base of the tubules, the anthers finely granular, the tubules slightly shorter than the thecae, somewhat spreading, dehiscing by oval, latrorse clefts; style glabrous, the stigma peltate, the ovary inferior. Fruit unknown.
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