Straggly epiphytic shrub 2-10 dm tall;  brachlets subterete, irregularly ridged and grooved, moderately to densely spreading pilosulose with hyaline to slightly tawny trichomes mostly 0.3-0.7 mm long;  internodes short, mostly less than 1/3 the length of the nearest leaf and usually 2-7 mm long.  Leaf blades coriaceous, strongly spreading or merely divergent forming an angle 90?-45?, minutely and indistinctly serrulate or entire, typically narrowly linear-oblong to elliptic, less commonly shortly and narrowly oblanceolate, mostly 8-12 x 2.5-4 mm, typically about 4-times as long as wide, apically acute, basally tapering or somewhat rounded, sparsely and indistinctly appressed pilosulose, especially on the lower surface, becoming glabrate, obscurely and finely short-ciliate near the apex but becoming glabrate;  venation obscure, neither elevated nor impressed;  petioles 1-1.5 mm long, moderately to densely spreading puberulous or short-pubescent, the trichomes 0.2-0.5 mm long.  Inflorescences of solitary, subsessile flowers;  floral bracts 2-3, broadly clasping, ovate, ciliate, almost as broad as long;  bracteoles 2, broadly clasping, ovate, sparsely puberulous, ciliate, 2.5-3.5 mm long, borne just beneath and embracing base of the flower.  Flowers with the calyx hypanthium terete in cross-section, campanulate, glabrous, ca. 1 mm long and in diam.;  lobes 4, acute, erect, lance-ovate, 2-2.5 mm long, entire, conspicuously ciliate with spreading, hyaline trichomes ca. 0.2 mm long, sparsely appressed pilosulose or glabrous;  corolla white, glabrous, cylindric, 4-6 mm long and 1.5-2.5 mm in diam., the lobes 4, acute, triangular erect;  stamens equalling the corolla and the style.  Berry white, thin-walled, many seeded.

    Distribution.  Endemic to SE Panama in the mountains of Darién Province.