Slender shrub, 1.5-2 m, or high climbing liana, also epiphytic. Branchlets densely patently yellowish hairy in the youngest parts, glabrescent. Leaves scattered, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, apex shortly (0.5-1 cm) acuminate, tip ± bluntish, base very broadly attenuate or rounded, basal glands indistinct, coriaceous, initially shortly subdensely or more laxly hairy on both faces, first glabrescent on the intervenium, remaining hairy on midrib and nerves for a long time beneath, laxly glandular-punctate beneath, 5-plinerved from and a little from above the base, (4-)5-8(-10) by 2-4 cm, edge ± revolute and subden-ticulate, midrib and nerves much impressed above, prominent beneath, reticulation obscure; petiole rather densely hairy, 4-7(-8) by 1.5-2 mm. Fascicles axillary, 4-6(-10)-flowered, ± densely and shortly yellowish tomentulose; rachis up to 5 mm. Pedicels rather robust, 10—17 mm, bract-eolate in lower third. Calyx cup-shaped, tube semiglobose, c. 1.5 mm, limb spreading, 1 mm, 5-denticulate. Corolla subcylindric, red or pink, 1.5-1.7(-1.8) cm long, c. 4 mm ø at base and 5 mm across distally, lobes subdeltoid, obtuse, 2 mm. Stamens 7(-8) and 5-5.5 mm; major stamens: filaments c. 3 mm, densely appressedly yellowish hirsutulous distally; cells oblong, base acute, c. 5 mm including the ± divergent, c. 2 mm long tubules; processes hirsutulous, narrow, connate, but free at tip, ± as long as tubules. Disk yellowish tomentulose. Style slender, glabrous, 1.7-1.9 cm. Submature fruit subglobose, truncate at apex, disk thick and slightly surpassing the calyx limb.
In rain-forest at 850 m, epiphytic on trees overhanging the river, or high climbing liana in oak forests at 1200 m, and as a slender shrub in the mossy forest in dense scrub on exposed summit at 2150 m. Fl. Febr.-March.
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