Epiphytic, long-pendent shrub with branches to ca. 4 m long, rarely terrestrial;  stem subterete, bluntly angled, nitid, dark reddish-brown, glabrous;  twigs strongly flexuous, subterete, angled, nitid, glabrous or cinerous.  Leaves coriaceous, thick-succulent when fresh, essentially sessile, strongly involute, funnel-shaped, and broadly amplexicaul, broadly ovate, 3.5-8.5 x 3-6.5 cm, base rounded to strongly cordate, apex acuminate, margin entire, slightly recurved, entire lamina wrinkled when dry, glabrous but with glandular fimbriae 0.2-0.4 mm long on both surfaces, subglabrate;  5-7-plinerved from the base, midrib impressed or obscurely raised above, lateral nerves impressed or obscurely raised above, reticulate veinlets impressed above, sometimes all nerves except midrib obscure;  petiole terete, rugose, ca. 1 mm long, short-pilose.  Inflorescence axillary, concealed in the base of the involute leaves and deciduous with them, 1-2-flowered, glabrous;  rachis minute or none;  floral bract oblong, obtuse or acute, 0.7-0.8 mm long;  pedicel terete, 3.5-6 mm long;  bracteoles basal, similar to floral bract.  Flowers with calyx 3-3.5 mm long, glabrous;  hypanthium obconic, rugose, inconspicuously 5-angled, ca. 1.5 mm long;  limb erect-spreading, cupuliform, inconspicuously 5-toothed;  lobes apiculate, hardly 0.3 mm long;  sinuses complanate;  corolla thick carnose, urceolate, contracted at base and apex, 7-7.5 mm long and 5-6 mm diam at middle, pale green (type), the lobes oblong-deltate, acute, ca. 1 mm long;  stamens 10 (rarely 11), ca. 7 mm long;  filaments 2-2.5 mm long, glabrous;  anthers 5-5.5 mm long;  thecae ca. 1.5 mm long, the base minutely mucronate;  tubules ca. 3.5 mm long, dehiscing by clefts ca. 0.5 mm long;  style equalling corolla, glabrous;  nectariferous disc annular-pulvinate, glabrous.  Mature berry not seen, but immature ca. 9 mm diam.

    Distribution.  Colombia (one collection) and Ecuador (five collections);  premontane to montane cloud forest, at 2200-2700 m altitude.  Rare and endangered.