Epiphytic or terrestrial straggly shrub; branches 1-2.5(4) m long, stout, terete, glabrous, grayish to brown or reddish brown. Leaves oblong, ovate ob-long, lance oblong or elliptic, (6-)10-25(-29) cm long, (2-)4-10(-14) cm wide, basally cuneate, rarely rounded, apically acute to acuminate, entire, slightly rev-olute, chartaceous to coriaceous, glabrous or rarely inconspicuously glandular strigillose beneath, trichomes 0.2 mm long or less, drying reddish brown; 3-(5)-plinerved, the midvein and the principal paralleling veins either impressed or slightly elevated on the upper surface and prominently elevated beneath, the veinlets drying reticulate slightly elevated on both the surfaces. Inflorescences often numerous, pendent, usually cauliflorous, either arising from a low padlike mound or shortly racemose, 3-10(-30)-flowered; rachis striate, glabrous, 5-15 (-40) mm long; glabrous or rarely sparsely puberulent, terete, often distally swol-len, 8-20(-25) mm long; bract basal, inconspicuously ciliate, triangular, (1.8-) 2-3 (-4) mm long, bracteoles 2, alternate, narrowly triangular, acute, incon-spicuously ciliate, 1-1.5(-2) mm long. Flowers with the hypanthium glabrous, coriaceous, campanulate, occasionally slightly enlarged at the base. 1.5-2.5 mm high, 3-4.2 mm in diameter at anthesis, the calyx limb drying thinly cori-aceous, nearly truncate, slightly flaring, 1.5-2.2(-3.0) mm long including the lobes, the lobes minute, apiculate; corolla usually carnose but often drying as though thinly textured, cylindric or tapering to the slightly flaring throat, occasionally thin waisted with a somewhat swollen base and distally flaring, (15-)17-28 mm long, mostly (2-)3-5 mm in diameter, usually bright red for the basal 3/4 and apically white, the lobes acute, oblong, 1-2 mm long; stamens 10, staminal tube 1.5-2(-3.0) mm long glabrous the free portion of the anthers ciliate, the thecae alternately 3.8-s mm long and 4.8-6 mm long, dehiscing by oval clefts 1.8-2.5 mm long; style 18-30 mm long and usually exserted 2-3 mm beyond the corolla, long persisting. Berry often glaucous, 5-6 mm high, 7-8 mm in diameter.
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A vine-like shrub. The branches are 1-2.5 m long. New growth is red and the bark is dark brown. The leaves are alternate and 10-25 cm long by 4-10 cm wide. They are oval with a wedge shaped base and a pointed tip. The flowers are bright red with white tips. They are 2.5 cm long by 0.4 cm wide. The fruit are fleshy and 6 mm long by 8 mm wide.
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