Slender liana, to finger-thick. Leaves 3-4(-5)-jugate, leaflets chartaceous to coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, acute, towards apex toothed or shallowly crenate, venation raised on both sides, but not fine-tessellate above, c. 2-5ll2 by 1-2½ cm, rachis narrowly winged; petiole without basal glands; petiolules almost absent. Thyrses axillary and terminal, lax, almost glabrous. Pedicels filiform, 1-2 cm. Calyx c. 7 mm, with 5 short, broad-triangular teeth. Corolla ± infundibuliform, 20-25 mm long, the tube narrowed to the base, straight, limb zygomorphous, c. 8-10 mm wide at the mouth, the lobes 2-4 mm, bearded in the mouth and upper part of the tube, the lobes white to pale red or streaked red, the tube light brown or yellow flushed red outside, yellow inside, with a distinct stuppose hair-ring near the insertion of the filaments. Stamens included. Disk cupular. Ovary ± conical, eglandular. Capsule flattened, 4-8½ by l½-3 by ½-l cm, sessile to stiped and short-beaked; valves hard, almost coriaceous to woody, narrow boat-shaped; dissepiment thick-coriaceous, 3-10 by 1¼-2½ cm. Seeds 1¼-2¾ by 1-2 cm.
Mountain rainforest, often mossy, forest edges and regrowths, 1000-1350, 2100-2450 m. Fl. Febr., May-June, Aug.-Nov.; fr. Aug.-Sept., Dec.
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