Epiphytic shrub, c. 2 m. Branchlets robust to slender, angular, glabrous. Leaves lax, oblong or subovate-oblong, apex subabruptly and shortly (c. 2 cm) acuminate (very tip bluntish), base broadly attenuate to rounded, basal glands +-indistinct, +-stiff by coriaceous, glabrous, sparingly glandular-punctate beneath, 14-20 by 5-8 cm, entire, 7(-9)-plinerved from and from (high) above the base, midrib and nerves slightly sunken above, prominent beneath, reticulation rather dense, finely raised beneath, less so above; petiole rugose, 10-12 by c. 2.5 mm. Racemes abbreviate, few-flowered, from foliate and defoliate axils, glabrous; rachis robust, 1-1.5(-2) cm. Pedicels stout, 8-10 by c. 2 mm. Bracteoles basal. Calyx green, tube cup-shaped, base ± rounded to subtruncate, 4-5 by 4(-5) mm, limb low, c. 2 mm, broadly 5-lobed halfway. Corolla cylindric, +-contracted at base, 2.5(-3) cm by c. 5 mm, bright to dark red, fleshy, lobes obtusely triangular, c. 2.5 mm. Stamens 13-14(-16) and 11-12(-14) mm; major stamens: filaments densely shortly appressedly hairy and ciliate distally as is the connective in its lowest part; cells narrow-oblong, base subacute and curved inward, 11-12 mm including the =h divergent, c. 2.5 mm long tubules; connective sparsely short-hairy or almost glabrous, laxly to subdensely long-hairy at the processes, these near together, between or partly behind the +-equally long tubules. Disk very shortly hairy or puberulous, or glabrous. Style rather robust, glabrous, +-exserted. Fruit subglobose, purplish blackish, c. 1 cm ø.
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