Shrub;  stems terete, densely and shortly pilose, hairs ferruginous or whitish, turning grayish, glabrate.  Leaves thick-coriaceous, strongly convex above and concave below, elliptic, 1.5-3 x 0.7-1 cm, base obtuse to broadly cuneate, short-decurrent, apex obtuse or rounded, margin entire, strongly revolute, bearing 1 pair of pustular glands at the lamina base, glabrous above, densely ferruginous-tomentose beneath so as to obscure surface;  pinnately nerved with midrib impressed above and raised beneath, lateral nerves (apparently 3-4 per side) obscure;  petiole subterete, shallowly canaliculate above, rugose, 2-4 mm long, pubescent as stems.  Inflorescence 1-5-flowered, with rachis, pedicels, floral bracts, bracteoles, and exterior surfaces of calyx densely and shortly ferruginous-tomentose, glabrate;  rachis subterete, angled, 2-8 mm long;   loral bract ovate, ca. 1.5 mm long, obtuse;  pedicel subterete, angled, ca. 3 mm long;  bracteoles broadly ovate, ca. 1.5-2 mm long, acute.  Flowers with calyx ca. 8 mm long, lobes ovate, ca. 6 mm long, acuminate, sparsely short-pilose within at tips;  corolla immature but buds densely short-pilose and anther base short-mucronate;  ovary densely ferruginous-pilose so as to obscure surface;  style ca. 5 mm long, glabrous.  Berry not seen.

    Distribution (Map).    Endemic to the Venezuelan Guayana and known only from the type collection,  said to have been collected at the entrance to a cave, and from Chimantá.  Rare and endangered.