Drymonia flavida L.E.Skog

Epiphytic shrubs; stems reddish purple, sparsely strigose above, 4-6 mm in diam., rooting from the nodes. Leaves nearly equal in a pair, lanceolate to ob-lanceolate or oblong, 4-7 cm long, 1.6-3.2 cm wide, subcoriaceous, the apex acuminate, the base acute to rounded, entire, above and below purplish, sparsely strigillose; petioles 3-10 mm long, purple, strigillose. Inflorescences axillary; peduncles short or lacking; bracts lanceolate, 1.0-1.5 cm long, purple, sparsely strigillose; pedicels 1.5 cm long, purple strigose. Flowers large, the calyx lobes more or less erect, free to the base, ovate, ca. 4 cm long, 3 cm wide, green tinged, deep red purple, the outside sparsely strigillose, the inside sericeous at the base, the apex acute to acuminate, the base strongly cordate, the margin entire; corolla yellow, immature, fleshy, tubular, ca. 2 cm long, 1 cm in diam., densely sericeous outside, the inside glabrous, the lobes of the limb short, 2 mm long, 3 mm wide;