Epiphytic shrub ca. 5 dm tall;  stems subterete or bluntly angled, minutely striate but becoming smooth, glaucous, pale reddish-brown when dry, hispidulous with translucent trichomes 0.2-0.3 mm long, glabrous with age.  Leaves distichous, ovate, (2.5-)3-4.5 x 1.5-2.5 cm, basally broadly rounded or subtruncate, apically short-acuminate, apiculate, entire, obscurely short-pilose above, especially near the margins, glabrous beneath, pale green above, brown beneath when dry but with a pale greenish-brown area 1 mm broad along the entire margin;  3(-5)-plinerved, the nerves obscure but slightly impressed above, only the midrib slightly raised beneath;  petiole subterete, flattened above, 2-3 mm long and 1 mm diam., hispidulous with translucent trichomes 0.2-0.3 mm long.  Inflorescence of axillary, solitary flowers, bracts 2-4, minute, basal;  floral bract ovate, ciliate, 0.3-0.5 mm long;  pedicels angled, striate, glaucous, hispidulous, 1.5-2.5 mm long;  bracteoles awl-shaped, ciliate, ca. 0.5 mm long, supramedial.  Flowers with the calyx glaucous, sparsely hispidulous with translucent hairs 0.2 mm long;  hypanthium obconic, bluntly 5-angled, 2-3 mm long;  limb 1.5-1.7 mm long including the apiculate lobes;  corolla urceolate, strongly constricted at the throat, 5-5.5 mm long and ca. 2.2 mm diam. near the base, glabrous below, the upper part of the throat and the lobes hispidulous, the lobes ca. 0.5 mm long;  stamens 10, 2.5 mm long;  filaments alternately ca. 1.5 and 2 mm long, glabrous;  anther 1-1.2 mm long inserted near the base;  tubules equaling the thecae;  style ca. 3.5 mm long, glabrous.  Berry ca. 5 mm in diam.

    Distribution.  Costa Rica and Panama.  Rare.