Shrub 0.5-1 m tall.  Leaves coriaceous, imbricated, obovate to more typically oblong-elliptic, mostly 2.5-4.7 x 1.2-1.8(-2.3) cm, acute to apically rounded with a 1-2 mm long apiculus, seemingly entire but actually indistinctly and minutely serrulate, glabrous on the upper surface except finely whitish-appressed-pilosulous near the base and inconspicuously ciliate especially in lower quarter, lower surface indistinctly and sparingly beset with both appressed reddish-brown, glandular trichomes more or less 0.2 mm long and also appressed whitish-pilosulous basally;  petioles 2-3 mm long, moderately puberulous.  Inflorescence a dense, axillary raceme with softly pilosulous or puberulous rachises and pedicels;  floral bracts appressed, linear to lanceolate, 3-4 mm long, puberulent;  pedicels distinctly articulate just beneath the hypanthium, 6-10 mm long;  bracteoles appressed, linear to narrowly lanceolate, 2-3 mm long, puberulent.  Flowers with calyx hypanthium campanulate to cylindric, ± 2.5-3.0 mm long and in diam., moderately puberulous with whitish trichomes ± 0.1-0.2 mm long;  limb ± 0.8-1 mm long, slightly flaring;  lobes triangular, acute, 1.2-1.8 mm long, puberulous externally and internally;  sinuses broadly rounded;  corolla cylindric, 8-10 x 4-5 mm, pink to red, externally appressed- to spreading-puberulous with moderately abundant hyaline trichomes ± 0.4 mm long and internally moderately to densely pilose with hyaline trichomes, the lobes reflexed, triangular, 1.5-2 mm long, white, densely pilosulous both externally and internally;  stamens 10;  filaments distinct, attached to the receptacle, ± 2.0-3.0 mm long, glabrous proximally but marginally with appressed-pilosulous hyaline trichomes distally;  connective 1.0-1.2 mm long;  thecae 2.5-3.5 mm long, coarsely granular, basally strongly incurved;  tubules 2, separate to the base, 3.5-4.5 mm long opening by oblique, introrse pores ± 0.6 mm long.  Berry not seen.

    Distribution.  Endemic to Costa Rica.  Rare and endangered.