Epiphytic shrub;  branches terete, striate, fissured, grayish, glabrous.  Leaves coriaceous, broadly elliptic, 1.8-5.1 x 1.2-2.8 cm, basally rounded to obtusely cuneate, apically entire, glabrous but inconspicuously glandular strigillose on both surfaces, more so beneath;  obscurely 3-plinerved;  petioles glabrous, 2-3 mm long.  Inflorescence of solitary or paired flowers in the leaf axils;  pedicels pendent, arching in both young and older fruit, 6-8 mm long, with dense bulbous based trichomes at least distally;  floral bract triangular, appressed, ca. 0.6 mm long;  bracteoles triangular, alternate, 0.3-0.5 mm long, nearly basal.  Flowers 5-merous;  calyx glabrous;  hypanthium 2-2.2 mm diam., densely tuberculate with bulbous-based, glandular protuberances, ca. 2.5 mm high;  limb glabrous, erect to slightly spreading, 0.5-0.7 mm long;  lobes erect, triangular, glabrous, 0.4-0.5 mm long.  Fruit a globose, densely tuberculate white berry;  seeds cuneiform with a striate, transparent (when dry) outer layer exhibiting the green embryo within.

     Distribution.  Endemic to Panama and known only from the type.