Epiphytic shrub to 4 m tall, mature branches terete, glabrous;  bark grayish when dry, cracking longitudinally;  immature branches and twigs of new growth brown when dry.  Leaves coriaceous, elliptic to oblong elliptic, (3-)4.5-6 x (1.5-)2-3 cm, basally rounded, narrowly rounded or subcordate, apically subacute, rounded, obtuse or bluntly short acuminate, glabrous except puberulous along the nerves above;  3(-5)-plinerved, the midrib, the lateral nerves and the veinlets reticulate, all raised slightly on both the surfaces; petioles subterete, slightly flattened above, puberulous, 2-3 mm long and ca. 2 mm in diam.  Inflorescence 5-8(-12)-flowered;  rachis coarsely angled, striate, glabrous, 2-13 mm long;  floral bracts ovate to deltoid, acuminate to subacute, ca. 1.5 x 2 mm, marginally glandular fimbriate;  pedicels subterete, rugulose, swollen distally, 10-20 mm long and  1-2 mm in diam., inconspicuously puberulous and with scattered fimbriae distally;  bracteoles ovate to deltoid, acuminate to subacute, ca. 1-1.5 x 1 mm, marginally glandular-fimbriate, located at the middle of the pedicel.  Flowers with the hypanthium fleshy, glabrous, bright pink to red, (5.5-)6-9 mm long and 8-10 mm in diam. including wings;  hypanthium 4-5 mm long, the wings 1.5-2(-3) mm broad and conspicuously veined;  limb 3-4 mm long;  lobes apiculate;  corolla cylindric, angled but not winged, yellow, glabrous but often with scattered glandular fimbriae, (16.5-)17-19 mm long and 3-4 mm in diam., the lobes 1-2 mm long and 2-2.5 mm wide, flaring at anthesis;  stamens 9-10.5 mm long;  filaments distinct but often adnate to base of the corolla tube, 2-3 mm long and ca. 1.3 mm wide at the base, marginally pilose distally and onto the connective;  anthers 7-9 mm long;  thecae 4-5.5 mm long, with a short caudate, occasionally pubescent, basal appendage;  tubules flexible, acute, slightly narrower than the thecae, dehiscent over the entire length;  style exserted, 18-20 mm long.  Berry red, 7-9 mm long.

    Distribution.  Endemic to central Panama.