Trees or semiepiphytic pseudovines, to 15 m tall. Bark grayish white. Branches somewhat pendulous, brown, lenticellate, stellate hairy when young. Petiole terete, ca. 2 cm, adaxially grooved; leaf blade often oblong to elliptic, to 30 X 15 cm, abaxially sparsely gray-yellow stellate pilose, adaxially glabrous, base cuneate to rounded, apex acute. Thyrses more than 30 cm, narrow, sparsely rusty stellate hairy; cymes often 3-flowered; peduncle to 1 cm. Pedicel short. Bracteoles 2, small. Calyx to 8 mm, outside stellate hairy; lobes orbicular to broadly ovate. Corolla reddish, to 3.5 cm; tube compressed, distally gradually enlarged, outside stellate hairy. Stamens 4; filaments glabrous. Ovary ovoid-globose, glabrous, obscurely 6-striate. Capsule oblong-ovoid to narrowly ellipsoid, ca. 4 cm. Seeds narrowly winged. Fl. Sep-Oct.
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