Shrub to 5 m tall;  bark slightly fissured, glabrous, gray to dark gray;  twigs subterete, dark gray or dark brown, glandular-hispid.  Leaves coriaceous, flat, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 4.2-7.6 x 1.25-3.1 cm, base cuneate (obtuse), apex acuminate or cuspidate, margin glandular-ciliate, both surfaces glabrous or adaxial surface and midvein glandular-hispid;  petiole subterete, flattened adaxially, 4-7 mm long, glandular-hispid.  Inflorescence a terminal raceme, 9-12-flowered;  rachis 2.2-9.2 cm long, 0.8-1.1 mm diam., dark gray or dark brown, glandular-hispid;  pedicels ascending, 21-35 mm long, 0.2-0.4 mm diam., glandular-hispid;  bracteoles inserted on basal 1/2 of the pedicel, linear to narrowly ovate, involute, 2.4-3.8 x 0.3-0.4 mm, base truncate, apex acuminate, margin glandular-ciliate, both surfaces glabrous or glandular-hispid;  floral bracts narrowly ovate, flat or sometimes involute, 3-5 x 0.6-0.9 mm, base cuneate, apex acuminate to acute, margin glandular-ciliate, both surfaces glabrous or the abaxial surface glandular-hispid.  Flowers 7-merous;  calyx 4.1-4.2 mm long;  tube 1.5-2.2 mm long, 2.9-4 mm diam., dark brown to brown, glandular-hispid;  lobes widely ovate, 2.2-3 x 1.7-3.3 mm, apex acute, longest lobe 2.6-3 mm long, margin entire or ciliolate, abaxial surface glandular-hispid, tomentose or glabrous;  corolla tubular, pink, petals undulate, narrowly obovate, 21.5-31 x 4-6.5 mm, margin entire, distally slightly tomentose;  stamens exserted less than 1.2 times the petal length or subequal to corolla, 24.5-32.5 mm long;  filaments tomentose;  anthers 2.1-2.5 mm long, 0.6-1.3 mm wide, glabrous;  ovary glabrous;  style exserted, ca. 36.5 mm long;  stigma capitate.  Capsules not seen; seeds not seen.

    Distribution.  Endemic to Ecuador, to the montane forest of the Río Zamora valley (Zamora-Chinchipe Prov.), at ca. 2000 m alt.  Known from only two collections.  Flowering specimens were collected in late June to early July.  Rare and endangered.