Erect shrub 1-1.5 m tall;  stems subterete, somewhat ribbed, glabrous; bark thin, exfoliating in strips;  twigs subterete, angled, striate, deciduously puberulent and strigose;  buds complanate or angled, bracts ovate, striate, ciliate.  Leaves coriaceous, flat or slightly concave, elliptic, (1-)1.3-2 x (0.6-)0.7-1.2 cm, base rounded or broadly obtuse, apex acute with a sessile, blunt, terminal gland, margin conspicuously and regularly crenate with each tooth blunt and terminating in a tiny, deciduous, glandular seta, nitid and essentially glabrous above or minutely and deciduously puberulent along midrib, essentially glabrous beneath but with midrib reddish-black punctate, these punctae sometimes producing basally  swollen, short-glandular-setose hairs ca. 0.2-0.3 mm long or eglandular setae to 1 mm long;  midrib impressed above and conspicuously raised beneath, lateral nerves (4-5 per side) impressed, flat, or raised above and raised beneath, reticulate veinlets impressed to slightly raised above and conspicuously raised beneath;  petiole subterete, rugose, striate, shallowly but broadly canaliculate above, 1.5-2 mm long, punctate.  Inflorescence axillary, flowers nodding, solitary in axils of normal upper leaves or slightly reduced leaves near branch tips;  pedicel terete, striate, 5-8 mm long but lengthening to 1 cm after anthesis, short-pilose with white hairs and also moderately to densely strigose with short, crisped, ferruginous, basally slightly swollen, eglandular hairs to 0.5-0.75 mm long;  bracteoles ca. 4-9, basal or scattered along basal half of pedicel, mostly deciduous, ovate to ovate-elliptic, carinate, striate, acute, to ca. 3.5 mm long, densely ciliolate;  floral bract similar to bracteoles.  Flowers with calyx ca. 5 mm long, sparsely and deciduously short-setose as pedicels, lobes ovate, ca. 4 mm long, acuminate, ciliolate, glabrous or only sparsely short-pilose apically without and densely short-pilose within;  corolla urceolate to cylindric-urceolate, apparently 5-angled, 5-8 x 4-5 mm, sparsely short-white-pilose at base, weakly strigose along angles in basal half, pilose within, "white with pinkish lobes," the lobes ovate, obtuse, ca. 1 mm long;  stamens ca. 5 mm long;  filaments ca. 3.5 mm long, densely pilose; anthers ca. 2 mm long, awns short but conspicuous;  ovary densely short-pilose, canescent;  style ca. 4 mm long, sparsely short-pilose basally.  Fruiting calyx apparently globose, ca. 6 mm diam.

     Distribution (Map).  Endemic to Venezuela, where it is known only from Cerro Turimiquire (Edo. Sucre), the type collection made on "north-facing steep sandstone slopes, from beginning of sandstone to summit of cerro."  Rare and endangered.