Epiphytic glabrous shrub. Branchlets rather slender. Leaves lax, ovate-to lanceolate-elliptic, apex shorter or longer subcaudate-acuminate, tip bluntish, base broadly attenuate, basal glands inconspicuous, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, laxly set with blackish glandular muriculate hairs or points beneath, remotely minutely subserrate-crenulate or +-entire, 8-14 by 3-5.5 cm, 5(-sub-7) plinerved from and from c. 1.5 cm above the base, midrib and nerves faintly impressed above, prominent beneath, reticulation subdense, not much raised beneath, even less so above; petiole 8-10 by c. 1.5 mm. Flowers in 5-7-flowered abbreviate racemes or fascicles from foliate and defoliate axils; rachis up to 1 cm. Pedicels 10-15 by 1 mm. Bracteoles basal. Calyx tube subcampanulate-obconical, truncate, 4 mm, limb +-spreading, 2 mm, 5-lobed almost halfway, lobes depressed-ovate, apiculate. Corolla tubular, fleshy, 2.5-2.8 cm by 5 mm (4 by 1 cm fresh), wine-red, lobes erect, obtusely triangular, c. 3 mm. Stamens 13-14 and 11-12 mm; major stamens: filaments short-hairy distally as is the connective in its lower part, 5 mm; cells narrow-oblong, base acute with a dorsal anchor-like appendage, 10-11 cm including the ± divergent tubules; processes close long-hairy or subhirsute, +-as long as the tubules. Disk glabrous. Style slender, glabrous, c. 3.2 cm.
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