Epiphytic shrubs, the branchlets terete, finally compressed, black when dry and covered with gray spots, glabrous. Leaves persisting toward the apex of the branchlets, obovatp or obovate rotund, 1.5-4.5 cm long, 1.0-2.2 cm wide, round or truncate at the apex, cuneate basally, the costa scarcely distinguishable, the lateral veins not visible, thickly coriaceous, concolorous, glabrous, the margin slenderly callose; petioles thick, to 1 cm long, to 0.3 cm wide; stipules deciduous, persistent toward the apex, obovate rotund, to 1.5 cm long, rounded, coriaceous, glabrous, the veins conspicuous or evanescent. Flowers terminal, solitary, to 4 cm long, enclosed partially by 2 large bracteoles, these compressed rotund, to 2 cm long, scarious, glabrous, venose; hypanthium rectangular, to 1.8 mm long, glabrous, the calycine cup none, the lobes obviously absent; corolla white, the tube infundibuliform, 2-3 cm long, ca. 0.3 cm wide, rigid, glabrous, the lobes 4, compressed rotund, to 1 cm long, wider than long, glabrous; stamens subsessile, the anthers linear oblong, ca. 3 mm long, affixed near the mouth; style ca. 6 mm long, the stigmas 2, subulate, ca. 3 mm long. Fruits not seen.
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