Climbing epiphytic or terrestrial shrub or vine, the branchlets slender, smooth, becoming gray with age. Leaves small, the petiole 2-5 mm long; blade oblanceolate or rarely obovate or lanceolate, 2.5-4 times as long as wide, 4-9.5 cm long and 1.5-3 cm wide, acute or subobtuse or sometimes subacuminate api-cally, acute or subtruncate basally, thinly coriaceous, the midrib flat above, prom-inent beneath, the lateral veins hardly visible or hidden; hypophyllous glands mostly few (3-9) and several mm from the revolute margin or absent, large, with a thick circumvallation. Inflorescences many-flowered racemes, 7-15 cm long; nectaries foliaceous, spathulate, flat, slightly gibbose, 4-5 mm long and ca. 2 mm wide, the apex acute, inserted at the middle of the pedicels or higher, occasionally close to the base of the flowers. Flowers with slender pedicels, (5-) 7(-9) mm long; bracteoles to 2 mm long and to 1.5 mm wide, appressed to the calyx; sepals suborbicular, 1.5-2.5 mm long and 2-3 mm wide; petals obo-vate-oblong, ca. 7 mm long and ca. 3 mm wide, free or nearly so, reflexed; sta-mens 3, the filaments flattened, ca. 4 mm long and ca. 1 mm wide basally, nar-rowed apically, adnate to the bases of the petals, the anthers ovate-subglobose, to 1 mm long and ca. 0.75 mm wide; ovary globose, ca. 2 mm in diameter, the style 1.5 mm long. Fruit globose, ca. 5 mm in diameter, apiculate, cherry-pink.
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