Epiphytic shrub with branches pendent to 3 m long and often sending out rootlets;  branches muricate, glabrous or short-hirsute to glabrate.  Leaves drying membranous to subcoriaceous, elliptic, ovate-elliptic or rarely ovate, 4-10(-14) x (1.5-)2-4 cm, base cuneate, obtuse or rarely rounded, apex long- to abruptly short-acuminate or caudate-acuminate, glabrous or weakly pilose above, glabrous beneath, acumen often weakly short-ciliate, glandular-fimbriate on both surfaces;  5-plinerved from at or near base, midrib and lateral nerves plane to weakly impressed above and conspicuously raised beneath, reticulate veinlets raised and very conspicuous above;  petiole 2-3 mm long, glabrous or short-hispid.  Inflorescence 8-15-flowered, the flowers restricted to distal 2/3 of inflorescence, slightly viscid when fresh, surrounded at base by numerous, subcoriaceous, striate, ovate to oblong bracts;  rachis 1-2 cm long, glabrous or densely pilose;  floral bracts strongly reticulately veined, oblong or more commonly spatulate, 25-40 x 15-25 mm, distally emarginate and somewhat scutellate, margin crisped and usually short-ciliate, dorsally glandular-fimbriate and glabrous or sparsely pilose, the proximal bracts rose-red but distally becoming basally pinkish and apically translucent white;  pedicel 4-7(-10) mm long, glabrous or pilose;  bracteoles none.  Flowers with calyx glabrous or densely pilose, 9-10.5 mm long, glandular-fimbriate, cream-colored;  hypanthium cylindric or slightly globose, 2.5-3 mm long;  limb translucent, cylindric-campanulate, 4-7.5 mm long;  lobes narrowly triangular, 2-3 mm long, margin glandular-fimbriate;  sinuses rounded;  corolla cylindric, 26-34 mm long, glabrous;  stamen alternately slightly unequal, 7.5-9 mm long;  filaments alternately 2 mm and 4.2 mm long, glabrous;  anthers alternately 6.2 mm and 5.5 mm long;  thecae slightly granular, ca. 2-2.5 mm long;  tubules 3-4 mm long, dehiscing by clefts 1.2-2 mm long;  style 24-32 mm long.  Berry not seen.

    Distribution (Map).  Colombia and Ecuador;  tropical wet and rainforest, premontane rainforest, and montane wet forest at 5-1600 m altitude.

    Local name:  mishitto wish (Awápit).

    Uses:  medicinally flowers as a charm for "duende" (spiritual illness) to rid evil spirits.