Epiphytic, often dense shrub with numerous stems from the same root cluster, 2-3 m, or climbing up to 6 m. Branchlets reddish brown, subangular and mostly glabrous at the tips, rarely pubescent. Leaves subdense, elliptic-, rarely subovate-or lanceolate-oblong, apex shortly and +-bluntly attenuate or subacuminate, base broadly attenuate to almost rounded, basal glands +-obscure, coriaceous, glabrous above, laxly caducously glandular-muriculate or punctate beneath, entire, 5(-7)-plinerved from and somewhat from above the base, the outer pair of nerves +-obsolete, the others faintly impressed above, prominent beneath, reticulation subinconspicuous, (6-)7-11(-14) by (2-)2.5-4(-6) cm; petiole stout, pubescent initially or glabrous, 0.5-0.8(-1) cm. Inflorescences (3-)5-7-flowered, sessile clusters. Perulae broad-oblong to suborbicular, densely subferrugineous-hairy all over or at least at apex, up to 1 by 0.6 cm. Pedicels robust, glabrous, (6-)8-10 mm, in fr. 10-15 by 1 mm. Bracteoles below or halfway ovate, sharply acuminate, fimbriate, 2 mm. Calyx tube cylindric, subangular, glabrous, dark green, 3-5 by 3(-4) mm, base truncate, limb erect, 1 mm, broadly and shortly 5-dented. Corolla campanulate, 9—10(-13) mm, densely and +-coarsely subferrugineous-hairy in bud, laxly and yellowish so at full anthesis, deep to pale red, lobes subacuminate, 2-3 mm, finally revolute. Stamens 4-5 and 3-4 mm; major stamens: filaments linear, glabrous or with a few hairs distally on back and margin, 1.5-2 mm; cells oblong, base ending in an obtuse beak, c. 2 mm; tubules flaring, 1 mm, divergent; processes a sparsely hairy ribbon on the back of the cells, adnate or free at the tip, ± as long as the tubules. Disk glabrous. Style slender, glabrous, reddish, c. 1.5 cm. Fruit subglobular, truncate, blackish and fleshy, 8-9 mm &. Seeds c. 1 mm, brown.
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