Epiphytic or terrestrial shrubs; stems short, the whole plant rarely to 2 m tall, thick, strigillose at least toward the apex. Leaves large, broadly ovate to broadly elliptic, 20-30 cm long, 10-20 cm wide, membranous, the apex acute, the base cuneate and decurrent, dentate or serrate, above dark green, strigose, below lighter green to purplish, strigose especially along the veins; petioles thick. In-florescences of several showy flowers congested in the upper leaf axils; peduncles ca. 5 mm long, the bracts large and leaflike; pedicels ca. 1.5 cm long, puberulent; calyx oblique, the lobes green or becoming reddish or orange, oblong, 2-3 cm long, connate at the base, the apex obtuse, puberulous, entire; corolla white or cream, often yellow within tube and red or purple on the throat, tube horizontal in the calyx, spurred at the base, ventricose above and slightly narrowed at the throat, 3-7 cm long, puberulous, the limb ca. 3 cm across, the lobes unequal with the basal lobe larger and toothed, the upper and the lateral lobes usually entire, orange red; stamens included, the anthers oblong, ca. 5 mm long; ovary strigillose, the stigma stomatomorphic. Capsule ovoid to globose surrounded by the persistent calyx, to 1.7 cm long; seeds reddish. Chromosomes n = 9 (Wiehler, 1972).
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