Usually epiphytic shrubs.  Leaves elliptic, lance-ovate, oblong or ovate-oblong, (8-)12-18(-25) x 4-9(-11) cm, basally cuneate to rounded, apically acuminate to acute, glabrous;  3(-5)-plinerved.  Inflorescences axillary but frequently on leafless portions of the branches;  rachis 5-10 mm long with 6-12 flowers;  pedicels 6-10 mm long.  Flowers with calyx hypanthium campanulate, ca. 2 mm in diam. at anthesis, glabrous or minutely puberulous becoming glabrate, and either with or without appressed, minute glandular trichomes 0.1-0.2 mm long;  lobes 5, triangular, apiculate, ca. 0.2-0.3 mm long;  sinuses flat to slightly rounded;  corolla contracted distally, 10-12(-15) mm long and ca. 2-2.5 mm in diam., glabrous or more typically inconspicuously and sparingly appressed, reddish, glandular strigillose with trichomes 0.1 mm long, the lobes acute, ca. 1 mm long.  Fruit an hemispheric to ± globose berry.

    Distribution.  Guatemala to Costa Rica.  Montane forest.