Epiphytic shrub 0.5-1.0 m high, glabrous throughout except for the filaments;  branchlets thick, terete.  Leaves coriaceous when dry, oblong lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 26-37 x (3.5-)5.5-9.3 cm, basally cuneate, apically acute to gradually acuminate, entire and narrowly revolute;  pinnately nerved, the midvein and the principal veins moderately elevated above, prominently so beneath, the veinlets reticulate and conspicuous;  petioles rugose, 8-12 mm long and 3-4 mm in diam.  Inflorescences axillary, shortly racemose or corymbose at anthesis, 6-10-flowered with practically no peduncle;  rachis 6-10 mm long, angled;  pedicels 8-12 mm long and 1-1.5 mm in diam.;  floral bract papery, ovate to deltoid, acute, usually minutely toothed, 1.5-3 mm long;   bracteoles 2, submedial, often toothed, 1.5-2 mm long.  Flowers with the calyx hypanthium broadly campanulate at anthesis, 7-8 mm long and 5-7 mm in diam. at its summit;  limb slightly coriaceous, suberect, ca. 3 mm long including the lobes;  lobes deltoid, acute 2-2.5 x 2-3 mm;  corolla glabrous, somewhat fleshy, truncately conic at anthesis, 6-10  mm long and 5-8 mm in diam. at the base, contracted apically, the lobes, 5, deltoid, acute, 1-1.2 mm long and wide;  stamens 10;  filaments submembranaceous, distinct, ligulate, 1.5-2 mm long, puberulent ciliolate, apically tapering;  connectives either alternately and obscurely 2-spurred and spurless or all spurless;  thecae rigid, 3.5-4 mm long, the base conspicuously incurved;  tubules cylindric-conical, connate, 1.5-2 mm long, dehiscing introrsely by elongate oval clefts about as long as the tubules;  stigma ca. 0.5 mm in diam. when receptive.  Mature berry not seen.

    Distribution.  Endemic to central and eastern Panama;  known only from the wet montane forests.