Shrub 1-2 m tall, often becoming vinelike with branches scrambling to 7 in; branches terete or subterete, smooth or striate, glabrous or minutely pu-berulous, reddish or grayish brown when dry. Leaves chartaceous or sub- coriaceous, oblong, elliptic or lance elliptic, 9-14 cm long, 2-4.5 cm broad, basally cuneate and decurrent on the petiole, apically long acuminate, entire, glabrous, 3-5-plinerved, the midrib and the lateral nerves slightly impressed or raised above, conspicuously raised beneath, the veinlets impressed or more frequently raised above, raised and usually conspicuous beneath; petioles 4-6 mm long, 1.5-2 mm in diameter, glabrous, dark reddish brown. Inflorescence axillary, racemose, 8-12-flowered; rachis subterete or bluntly angled, glabrous, 2-6 cm long; floral bracts ovate, acute to acuminate, 2-3(-6) mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, glabrous, marginally scarious; pedicels cylindric, glabrous, 10-20 mm long and 1-1.5 mm in diameter, lengthening to 40; bracteoles 2-3(-4) mm long, similar to the floral bracts. Flowers with the hypanthium glabrous, cam-panulate, slightly rugose, 2-3 mm long, the calyx limb 2-4 mm long including the lobes, the lobes ovate or oblong ovate, apiculate, 1-3 mm long; corolla cylindric, narrowed at the throat, glabrous, 22-27 mm long, 5-7 mm in diam-eter, the lobes oblong, acute or obtuse, ca. 2-3 mm long; stamens 10, 8-13 mm long, the filaments connate (rarely loosely united in Ecuadorian material) into a distally ciliate tube 3-4 mm long, the connective conspicuously spurred (Panama-Colombia) or seemingly unspurred (Ecuador); the anthers 5.5-11 mm long including the tubules, the thecae slightly glandular, the tubules 2.5-4.5 mm long, dehiscing by clefts 1.5-2 mm long; style 22-29 mm long, exserted at anthesis. Berry not seen.
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