Epiphytic shrub or small liana. Branchlets obtusangular, glabrous. Leaves lax, lanceolate or ovate-, sometimes oblong-lanceolate, apex ± gradually acuminate, or subcaudate, subacute, base broadly attenuate to obtuse, sometimes rounded, basal glands minute, coriaceous, glabrous, entire or nearly so, 8.5-16.5 by 2.6-4.8 cm, 7-plinerved from and from somewhat above the base, nerves and midrib ± prominent above, more distinctly so beneath, reticulation lax, ± raised beneath only; petiole (2.5-)4-7 by 1.5-2 mm. Fascicles c. 3-flowered from defoliate axils or old wood. Pedicels slender, puberulous, 16-19 mm. Bracteoles basal. Calyx dark red, tube broadly tubular, slightly 5-angular, base truncate, subdensely to laxly short-pubescent, 2-3 mm, limb ± spreading, 1.5-2 mm, very shortly 5-dented, or subentire. Corolla tubular, membranous, light red, whether or not with dark red longitudinal stripes, c. 1.5 cm by 3 mm, subdensely to laxly short-pubescent at least in upper half, lobes c. 2 mm. Stamens 7-9 and 6-6.5 mm; major stamens', filaments very laxly hairy upwards, c. 4 mm; cells narrow-oblong, base with an acute, inward-curved beak, echinulate, c. 4 mm including the ± divergent, c. 2 mm long tubules; connective laxly hairy at the back of the cells, no processes. Disk glabrous. Style slender, c. 1.6 cm.
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