Straggly epiphytic shrub;  mature branches dull brownish to grayish, moderately pilosulose with hyaline to tawny trichomes;  branchlets irregularly ridged and grooved, the recent growth reddish-brown and densely spreading pilosulose with tawny to reddish-brown trichomes 0.4-1 mm long;  internodes short, almost all less than 1/4 the length of the subtending leaves and usually 1-2 mm long.  Leaves coriaceous, entire, elliptic to lance-elliptic, (4-)5-7(-8) x 1.5-2.2(-3) mm, mostly ca. 2.5 times as long as wide, apically acute in general outline but the actual apex obtuse, gradually tapering basally into the petiole, glabrate on both surfaces and margins, rarely with a few appressed, reddish, glandular trichomes on the lower surface, apparently dark green above and pale green beneath;  midvein slightly elevated beneath but the venation otherwise indistinct;  petioles 0.5-1 mm long, glabrous or nearly so.  Inflorescence of solitary flowers in the axils of foliage leaves, subtended by several (5-8) ovate to broadly elliptical, tawny to dull reddish-brown, scarious floral bracts mostly to 0.8-1.2 mm long;  bracteoles 2, broadly clasping, ovate to broadly oblong, broadly rounded apically, scarious, striate, 2-2.7 mm long, pale greenish to yellowish, borne just beneath and embracing the hypanthium;  pedicels ca. 0.5 mm long and obscured from view by the bracts and bracteoles.  Flowers with the calyx hypanthium terete, campanulate to obconic, glabrous to sparingly pale greenish, 1.4-1.8 long and 1-1.4 mm in diam.;  lobes 4, strongly ascendent, narrowly lanceolate, acute, with incurved margins, 2.5-3 mm long, entire, ciliate for the distal 1/3-1/2 but otherwise glabrous;  corolla "pale pink," the tube cylindric, 10-12 mm long and 2.5-3.2 mm in diam., nearly glabrous, but usually with a few appressed, glandular trichomes ca. 0.1 mm long just above the middle, the lobes 4, ascendent to more typically reflexed at maturity, 2.2-3 mm long, lanceolate, acute, distally spreading, short-pubescent with hyaline trichomes;  stamens 8, about as long as or slightly longer than the corolla;  filaments 8-9 mm long, flattened, sparingly hyaline pilosulose with trichomes 0.2-0.6 mm long;  anther thecae minutely papillate 1.2-1.5 mm long;  tubules 2.5-2.8 mm long;  style glabrous, exserted beyond the corolla, 13-14 mm long.  Berry not seen.

    Distribution.  Endemic to W Panama.  Rare and probably endangered.