Epiphytic shrub;  twigs terete, moderately to densely short-pilose, glabrate.  Leaves carnose (?), chartaceous and pellucid when dry, broadly ovate, (20-)25-30 x 20-23 mm, base broad and flat, apex sharply acute, margin entire and slightly cartilaginous, lamina essentially glabrous, but also provided with scattered, glandular fimbriae on both surfaces but especially beneath;  3(-5)-plinerved from base, midrib and lateral nerves slightly raised on both surfaces, or somewhat raised in depressions above, reticulate veinlets slightly raised but obscure on both surfaces;  petiole subterete, carinate, rugose, ca. 1.5-3 mm long, densely short-pilose, glabrate.  Inflorescence fasciculate, 2-flowered; floral bract and bracteoles (basal) minute, ovate, acute, ca. 0.5 mm long, glabrous;  pedicel subterete, striate, 15-20 mm long, sparsely pilose with white hairs ca. 0.6 mm long, sparsely glandular-fimbriate.  Flowers 5-merous, with calyx ca. 5.4-6 mm long, sparsely glandular-fimbriate;  hypanthium obconical, 2-3 mm long, pale pilose with hairs ca. 0.8 mm long;  limb campanulate-suberect, 2-3 mm long, glabrous or glabrate, nitid;  lobes triangular, acute, ca. 1.5 mm long, tufted-pilose at apex;  sinuses rounded;  corolla subcylindric, terete, 12-20 long and ca. 4 mm diam., red, glabrous but with scattered, minute, glandular fimbriae, the lobes oblong, subacute, mm long, long-pilose distally without;  [No flowers available for dissection, the proportions taken from the protologue]: stamens 10, alternately slightly unequal, nearly as long as corolla;  filaments glabrous;  anthers about equalling filaments in overall length;  tubules about twice as long as the thecae, dehiscing by oblique clefts.  Berry not seen.

     Distribution.  Endemic to Ecuador and known only from the type specimen; premontane forest at 1650 (-4000 ?) m altitude.