Epiphytic, much branched shrub or woody vine with branches to 2.5 m long; branchlets thick, subterete, angled when young, somewhat cinereous. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous, elliptic oblong (4-)6-10(-16.5) cm long, (2-)3-6(-10) cm wide, basally acute, cuneate or rounded, apically cuspidate, the obtuse acumen to 4 mm long, entire, the margin often conspicuously recurved, 5-plinerved, the in-terior veins often originating 1-2 cm above the base, with the midvein impressed above and prominently elevated beneath; petioles rugose, glabrous, thickened, 6-10 mm long. Inflorescences borne on leafless branches, shortly racemose, 2-6 flowered, the rachis slender, glabrous, 6-10 mm long; pedicels "coral pink," slender, distally slightly swollen, whitish puberulent, (6-)9-12 mm long, the bract oblong ca. 1.5 mm long, usually submedial but occasionally medial or supramedial, the bracteoles 2, inconspicuous, narrowly triangular, appressed, 1.5-2 mm long. Flowers with the hypanthium "coral pink," 1-2 mm long and 1-2 (-3) mm in diameter, externally densely spreading puberulent with whitish, per-sistent trichomes 0.2 mm long; calyx limb spreading erect, ca. 2 mm long, slightly fleshy, the lobes 5, deltoid, acute, ca. 1 mm long, 2.5 mm wide; corolla "coral pink" but distally pure white, densely spreading puberulous throughout, fleshy, cylindric, 10-13(16) mm long, 2-3 mm in diameter basally and at the throat, the lobes 5, acute, ca. 0.7 mm long, 1.3 mm wide; stamens 10, alternately 4 mm long and 4.5 mm long, the filaments glabrous, united in a pale, membranaceous tube 2.5-4 mm long, the anthers alternately 2-3 mm long and 2.3-3.8 mm long, the tubules opening by broad clefts ca. 0.6 mm long; stigma minute, subpeltate, the style slender, 1-2 mm longer than the corolla or equalling it. Berry (4-)5-7 (8) mm in diameter, 3-4 mm high, capped by the inflexed, acutely deltoid calyx lobes and with a markedly swollen basal enlargement 3-5 mm in diam-eter just beneath the disarticulation groove.
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