Epiphytic shrub;  branches terete, glabrous.  Leaves subcoriaceous, narrowly oblong-elliptic, 10-13.5 x 3-5 cm, base ± attenuate and decurrent onto petiole, apex acuminate, margin slightly recurved;  5-plinerved, midrib strongly impressed above and prominent beneath, thickened in proximal 1-1.5 cm, lateral nerves and reticulate veinlets inconspicuous;  petiole subterete, rugose, 8-11 mm long and ca. 2 mm diam.  Inflorescence axillary, solitary, 5-7-flowered;  rachis circumscribed at base by many, papery bracts to ca. 2 mm long, rachis itself striate, ca. 4 cm long;  floral bracts oblong-deltate, acute, 4-5 mm long;  pedicels rugulose, 30-37 mm long;  bracteoles basal, ca. 3 mm long.  Flowers with calyx ca. 9 mm long and 10 mm apical diam.;  hypanthium cupuliform, inconspicuously glandular, ca. 4 mm long and 5 mm diam.; limb spreading-erect, slightly longer than hypanthium;  lobes deltate, apicaulate, ca. 1 mm long;  sinuses complanate;  corolla carnose, cylindric-urceolate, ca. 35 mm long and 10-12 mm diam. near base, the lobes oblong-deltate, obtuse 2-3 mm long;  stamens 10, 10-11 mm long;  filaments distinct, ca. 5 mm long;  connective carnose and apically 2-spurred, the spurs spreading, obtuse;  anthers 9-10 mm long;  thecae ca. 1.5 mm diam., shortly incurved basally;  tubules scarcely 2 mm long, much shorter than thecae, dehiscing through oval rims;  style filiform, about equalling corolla;  stigma truncate.  Berry not seen.

    Distribution.  Endemic to Costa Rica, from premontane cloud forest.  Rare and endangered.