Epiphytic vines or shrubs; stems slender, to 1 mn, the internodes short, brittle, strigillose, branched. Leaves equal to greatly unequal in a pair, lanceolate to elliptic, 2.2-9.7 cm long, 0.7-3.4 cm wide, subcoriaceous when fresh, the apex acuminate, the base cuneate to rounded, subentire to serrate, above dark green, shiny, glabrous, below lighter green, minutely strigillose; petiole 0-6 mm long. Inflorescences axillary, of single flowers; peduncles lacking; bracts minute; pedicels 0.7-1.0 cm long, red, strigillose. Flowers few; calyx not oblique, the lobes nearly equal, ovate, 0.8-1.5 cm long, the apex acuminate, deeply toothed, green to purplish, usually red; corolla white to yellow with reddish stripes in the tube, or purplish within or on the limb, the tube erect in the calyx, with a short rounded spur at the base, ca. 2.5 cm long, slender, ventricose above, then con-tracted at the throat, glabrous below, sparsely pilose above outside, the limb somewhat 2-lipped, the lobes small, nearly entire to erose, ciliate; anthers oblong; ovary globose, reddish, pilose. Capsule surrounded by the persistent calyx, globose, ca. 0.8 cm in diam., dark red to nearly black; seeds oblong, ca. 1 mm long, reddish brown, lined, but not noticeably twisted.
Home