Totally glabrous shrub;  branches subterete, smooth or minutely striate, bluntly ridged.  Leaves oblong to ovate-lanceolate, 5-7 x 1.6-2.6 cm, basally rounded, apically long-acuminate, slightly revolute at very base, nitid;  3(-5)-plinerved from near base, midrib and lateral nerves impressed and conspicuous above, raised beneath but only midrib obvious, reticulate veinlets obscure on both surfaces;  petiole subterete or slightly flattened dorsally, rugose, 3.5-5.5 mm long and 1.5-1.8 mm in diam.   Inflorescence 5-7-flowered;  rachis sharply angled, striate, 1.3-2.5 cm long and 1 mm diam., nodes raised and very prominent;  floral bracts elliptic to broadly ovate, 14-17 x 10-15 mm, marginally glandular-fimbriate;  pedicels subterete, rugose, 3-4 mm long and 1.2 mm diam.;  bracteoles located ca. midway up pedicel, oblong, 2 x 1 mm, marginally glandular-fimbriate.  Flowers:  calyx 7-10 mm long;  hypanthium cylindric or somewhat obconic, rugose, 2-3.5 mm long, apophysate proximal 0.8-1 mm, the apophysis not or only slightly spreading;  limb cylindric-campanulate to erecto-patent, 5-7 mm long, irregularly and unequally divided into 5 oblong-triangular lobes 2-5 mm long, seemingly erect after anthesis, marginally bearing ca. 3-5 remotely spaced fimbriae;  sinuses acute;  corolla cylindric, 17-18 mm long, "rose at base, green at tip," lobes deltoid, obtuse, ca. 2 mm long;  stamens ca. 10-11 m long;  filaments slightly coherent at base, alternately ca. 2.5 mm and 4.5 mm long;  anthers alternately 8.5-9.5 mm and 8-9 mm long;  thecae 2.5-3.5 mm long;  style ca. 20 mm long, short-exserted at anthesis.  Berry not seen.

    Distribution (Map).  Endemic to Colombia and known only from the type collections, said to have been collected in temperate forest.  Rare and endangered.