Epiphytic, much ramified shrub. Branchlets glabrous. Leaves ovate, apex obtusely acuminate, base rounded, coriaceous, glabrous, entire, large up to 25 by 14 cm, 7-plinerved, nerves prominent beneath; petiole robust, 7-10 mm. Racemes subdensely 5-8-flowered; rachis c. 2 cm. Pedicels glabrous, 7-9 mm. Calyx cup-shaped, glabrous, 4 mm in all, limb very low, obtusely 5-lobed. Corolla cylindric, minutely papillose-puberulous outside, dark rose red, c. 2.3 by 0.5 cm, lobes erect, subovate, acute, c. 3 mm. Stamens 15 and 9 mm; major stamens: filaments broadly linear, shortly substrigose hairy dorsally; cells narrow-oblong; tubules somewhat divergent; connective processes conical-subulate, substrigose-villous, distinctly exceeding the tubules. Disk glabrous. Style filiform, glabrous, as long as the corolla. Ex descr. typ.
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