Epiphytic herbs or subshrubs; stems perennial, erect or ascending, pubescent toward the apex, the internodes often elongate, branching below. Leaves op-posite and decussate, nearly equal in a pair, petiolate, more or less elliptic, often colored below, pubescent. Inflorescences densely clustered in the upper leaf axils; pedicels short or lacking, bracts present; pedicels short, pubescent. Flowers inconspicuous; calyx lobes 5, nearly equal, divided completely or nearly to the base, erect, often reddish, pubescent; corolla white with reddish spots, or pink, tubular, the tube inflated, gibbous at the base, barely exceeding the calyx lobes, the limb 5-lobed, the lobes more or less spreading; stamens included, the filaments adnate to the base of the corolla tube, free above; disc reduced to a single bibbed posterior gland, or occasionally with accessory glands; ovary superior, the stigma stomatomorphic. Fruit a berry, acuminate; seeds numerous, oblong, striate, reddish.
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