Epiphytic shrub with branches 1.5-2 m long;  mature stems subterete, glabrous, with ash-gray epidermis splitting longitudinally to expose blackish bark;  twigs bluntly angled, densely short-white-pilose, epidermis brown when dry.  Leaves coriaceous, broadly imbricate, 6-7 per cm, lanceolate, 1.5-2.1 x 0.4-0.6 cm, basally cuneate, apically acuminate, margins revolute in proximal one-fourth, olive-brown above and brown beneath when dry, glabrous on both surfaces although with scattered reddish-brown glandular fimbriae beneath; weakly 3-plinerved with only midrib raised and obvious on both surfaces, lamina surface wrinkled above, smooth beneath;  petioles terete, densely short-white-pilose, ca. 1.2 mm long and arising from thickened nodes.  Inflorescence axillary, solitary;  rachis none;  floral bracts 1-3, ovate, 0.5-1.0 mm long, glabrous;  pedicel none;  bracteole seemingly 1, enveloping hypanthium, broadly ovate, apiculate, ca. 1 mm long and 2.5 mm broad.  Flowers 4-merous; calyx pilose, ca. 4 mm long;  hypanthium subcylindric, 1-1.5 mm long, densely pilose with white hairs;  limb erecto-patent, 2.5-3 mm long, sparsely pilose;  lobes triangular, acute, 1.5-2 mm long;  sinus obtuse;  corolla cylindric, weakly pilose without as are lobes within, 8.5-10 mm long and 2.5 mm diam., white (fide label), the lobes deltate-oblong, obtuse, 1-1.5 mm long; stamens 8, nearly equaling corolla, ca. 8.5 mm long;  filaments distinct, pilose in upper half to three-quarters, ca. 5.5 mm long;  anthers ca. 3 mm long;  thecae slightly granular, 1-1.2 mm long;  tubules dehiscing by clefts ca. 1 mm long;  style glabrous, ca. 10 mm long.  Berry not seen.

     Distribution:  Endemic to Bolivia and known only from the type.  Rare and endangered.