Scandent epiphytic shrub, up to 4 m. Branchlets robust, glabrous, tips obtusangular, lower parts terete. Leaves scattered, oblong or subovate-oblong, apex shortly and abruptly or more gradually acuminate, base attenuate to rounded, basal glands ± conspicuous, coriaceous, glabrous, laxly glandular-punctate beneath, entire, 7(-9)-plinerved from and from above the base, midrib and nerves shallowly impressed above, prominent beneath, reticulation conspicuous, rather densely raised on both faces, 12-22 by (4-)4.5-7.5(-10) cm; petiole (7-)10-14 by 2-3 mm. Abbreviate racemes or clusters from the foliate or defoliate axils or from old wood; rachis robust, 10-15(-25) mm, glabrous or sometimes short-pubescent. Pedicels robust, glabrous or short-pubescent, 12-15 mm. Bracteoles basal. Calyx green, cup-shaped, laxly hairy, tube semiorbicular, 5 mm (7-8 mm fresh), limb low, spreading, hardly 2 mm, obtusely 5-lobed halfway. Corolla cylindric, pink to deep scarlet, ± densely yellowish or whitish pubescent, 2.5-3 by 0.5-0.6 cm (3.4-4 cm by 9 mm fresh), lobes paler, erect, obtusely deltoid, 1-2 mm. Stamens (15-)16-18 and 12-13 mm; major stamens: filaments white, linear, appressed-hairy distally, 4(-5) mm; cells narrow-oblong, base much recurved into a beak, each cell bearing a basal curved appendage which together form an anchor-like organ, 12-14 mm including the narrow, 2.5-3 mm long, not or +-divergent tubules; processes +-connate, hirsutulous, ± as long as the tubules. Disk whitish, +-densely pubescent. Style green, glabrous, c. 2.8 cm. Fruit red.
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