Epiphytic shrub often with long-pendent branches;  stem terete, bluntly angled or ribbed, nitid, cinereous, glabrous;  twigs subterete, broadly and bluntly angled, with raised nodes, striate, nitid, puberulent.  Leaves congested, coriaceous, stiff, usually wrinkled when dry, narrowly elliptic to oblong-elliptic, (1.1-)2-3.2 x (0.6-)0.7-1.3 cm, base rounded, truncate, or broadly obtuse, apex acute or callose-apiculate, margin entire, thinner than lamina, glabrous but sparsely and minutely glandular-fimbriate beneath;  3-plinerved from base, midrib faintly impressed above and raised beneath, lateral nerves obscure above but slightly raised beneath, reticulate veinlets slightly impressed but obscure on both surfaces;  petiole subterete, canaliculate, 2-3 mm long, puberulent, glabrate.  Inflorescence axillary, flowers solitary, surrounded at the base by 6-8, crowded, papyraceous, oblong-elliptic, striate, parallel-nerved, often distally split, minutely ciliolate and scariose-margined bracts, the outer ones minute, the inner to 6 mm long;  floral bract indistinguishable;  pedicel (above innermost bracts) very short or essentially none, up to 1 mm long;  bracteoles (2 innermost bracts) ca. 5-7 mm long and broad, covering all but tips of calyx lobes at anthesis, persistent and clasping fruit.  Flowers 4-merous, with calyx 7.3-8 mm long, glabrous or obscurely puberulent when young;  hypanthium cylindric-cupuliform, ca. 2-2.3 mm long;  limb erect, papyraceous, striate, ca. 5-5.7 mm long;  lobes narrowly imbricate over much of length, striate, obovate-elliptic, ca. 5 x 2.5-3 mm, narrowed and bluntly callose-subacute at apex, after anthesis tightly imbricate into a tube around the style;  sinuses acute when spread;  corolla thin-carnose, cylindric, ca. 8-10 mm long and 4 mm diam., the lobes reflexed, deltate, subacute, ca. 1 mm long;  stamen 8, ca. 6.5-7 mm long;  filaments ca. 3-4 mm long, densely short-pilose over entire length within;  anthers ca. 4-5 mm long, longer than filaments;  thecae ca. 1.8-2 mm long;  tubules 2, distinct, ca. 2-3 mm long, dehiscing by clefts ca. 1 mm long;  style subequal to corolla, glabrous;  nectariferous disc annular-pulvinate, glabrous.  Berry spherical, ca. 8 mm diam., crowned by persistent calyx limb with imbricate lobes, translucent white.

    Distribution.  Southern Colombia and N Ecuador;  premontane wet forest to montane wet forest at 1200-1800 m altitude.