Straggly, epiphytic or terrestrial shrub 4-6(-10) dm tall with subrugose and cinerous branchlets.  Leaves subcoriaceous, ovate to lance ovate, 4.5-6 x 2-2.8 cm, basally rounded or obtuse, apically obtuse, entire;  either 5-nerved from the base or 5-plinerved, the midvein and secondary nerves flush above slightly impressed and elevated beneath, the veinlets obscure or slightly raised beneath;  petioles subterete, 1.5-2 mm long.  Inflorescence of axillary or cauliflorous, solitary or paired flowers;  pedicels 7-15 mm long, swollen distally.  Flowers 4-merous;  calyx hypanthium campanulate, strigillose with dark trichomes 0.1 mm long but neither pilose nor puberulent, slightly 4-angled, 1-1.5 x 1.5 mm;  limb suberect, 0.8 mm long;  lobes apiculate;  corolla membranaceous, short cylindrical, 2-2.3 mm long and 1 mm diam., the lobes deltate, acute, ca. 0.3 mm long;  stamens 4, slightly shorter than the corolla;  filaments stramineous, ca. 1.2 mm long;   anthers membranaceous, ca. 1 mm long;  tubules as long as the anther sacs.  Berry white, subglobose, 3-5 mm diam.

     Distribution.  Costa Rica and Panama.