Glabrous except for all young parts densely brown tomentose, eventually glabrescent except for the ovary. Leaves opposite or sometimes scattered; lamina lanceolate to ovate, mostly 3-7 cm long, mostly 1-2 cm wide, attenuate at the base to a petiole 1-6 mm long, acuminate and acute or shortly rounded at the apex, thin, dull on both sides but slightly darker above; venation pinnate with the midrib and the main laterals distinct above and the midrib prominent below. Inflorescencess at the nodes, a 2-or 3-(rarely to 5-)flowered raceme; axis 5-20 mm long, flattened upwards; pedicels 0.2-2 mm long, subumbellately crowded near the tip of the axis; bracts triangular, acute, c. 1 mm long. Ovary urceolate, 1-1.5 mm long; calyx limb slightly spreading, entire, c. 0.2 mm long. Corolla in mature bud 4-merous, 5-8 mm long, slightly keeled in the lower part, narrowed above, weakly clavate and obtuse at the apex, red or purple. Anther 2-2.5 mm long, obtuse, 2 to 3 times as long as the free part of the filament. Style 5-7 mm long, reaching to the top of the anthers, conical at the base, uniformly slender above, lacking a constriction; stigma capitate, about twice as wide as the style.
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A woody plant which grows attached to other plants. The leaves have stalks. Leaves are 2-8 cm long by 0.8-3 cm wide. They are sword shaped and taper. They do not have hairs. The flowers are orange. They occur as a few flowers on equal length stalks along a main branch.
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