Epiphytic shrub. Leaves sessile, broadly to narrowly obovate, 35-70(-100) by 10-32 cm, thin-coriaceous, narrowed towards the base, at the base widened into a pair of rounded, sometimes more or less reflexed wings at both sides of the axillary scale, apex more or less rounded with a distinct, small (up to 2 cm long) and narrow, acute acumen; nerves 9-12 pairs, prominulous on both sides; axillary scale adnate to the midrib, 1.5 cm long, acute at the apex, completely hidden by the leaf-base. Inflorescences glomerulous, with 4-c. 15 subsessile flowers, enveloped by an involucrum of reduced leaves. Calyx campanulate, 2.5 cm (-6 cm in fruit), slightly more than halfway divided. Corolla-tube tubular, slender, c. 11 cm. Anthers narrowly ovate, 7 mm long, cells free to slightly above the middle. Stigma peltate, 0.5-0.75 cm ø. Fruits subglobular, ovate, or ellipsoid, 3-4½ by 2¾ cm; calyx accrescent, the fruits moreover enveloped by the long bracts.
In forests, 100-1400 m. Fl. April, Oct.-Dec., fr.--05.
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