Terrestrial or epiphytic shrub, when epiphytic conspicuously rooting along the stem near the nodes and with buds of terminal new growth notably mucilaginus (fide label);  stem terete, striate, nitid, densely hispidulous with dark castaneous, subpersistent hairs ca. 1 mm long;  twigs subterete, complanate, sharply angled, striate, pubescent as stem.  Leaves not congested, 4-5 per centimeter, somewhat succulent when fresh but drying thin-coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, 8-15 x (3-)5-8 mm, base obtusely cuneate to rounded or subtruncate, apex obtuse or rounded, margin recurved, glabrous, rarely obscurely glandular-fimbriate beneath along midrib;  obscurely 5-plinerved from base, midrib slightly impressed above and raised beneath, lateral nerves immpressed but along with reticulate veinlets obscure on both surfaces;  petiole subterete, flattened above, ca. 1 mm long, sparsely and shortly hispidulous.  Inflorescence of solitary, subsessile flowers;  floral bract suborbicular, rounded, to 1.5 mm long, glabrous or ciliolate;  pedicel ca. 0.5 mm long;  bracteoles striate, broadly oblong to suborbicular, 3-3.5 mm long and broad, glabrous or ciliate, surrounding the calyx hypanthium up to the middle of the lobes.  Flowers 4-merous, with calyx ca. 5 mm long;  hypanthium campanulate-cupuliform, ca. 2 mm long;  limb erect-spreading, deeply lobed;  lobes smooth or striate, ovate-oblong to deltate, acute, 2.5-3 mm long, apically minutely hispid or pilose along margins;  sinuses acute;  corolla thin-carnose, broadly campanulate or even subrotate, 5-6 mm long and 5-8 mm diam. at apex, deeply lobed, glabrous or distally short-pilose especially along lobe margins with white hairs, white, the lobes spreading to reflexed, deltate, obtuse, 3-4 mm long;  stamen 8, shorter than corolla, ca. 3.5 mm long;  filaments ca. 0.8-1.5 mm long, sparsely hispidulous distally;  anthers 3-3.5 mm long;  thecae ca. 1.4 mm long, basally rounded;  tubules 2, distinct, ca. 1.6 mm long, sometimes shorter than thecae (?), dehiscing by oval clefts ca. 0.5-0.7 mm long;  style thick, slightly exserted.  Berry spherical, ca. 10 mm diam., translucent white.

    Distribution.  Endemic to Ecuador and known only from two collections;  premontane and montane cloud forest, at 1700-2347 m altitude.  Rare and endangered.