Terrestrial shrub to 1.5 m tall;  mature stems terete, striate, sparsely pilose to glabrate, light brown to stramineous when dry;  bark cracking longitudinally.  Leaves thick-coriaceous, hard, succulent, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, 2-4.5 x 0.8-2 cm, basally broadly cuneate to narrowly obtuse, apically acuminate, mucronate, marginally entire and often slightly revolute, appressed-pilose above when young becoming glabrate, glandular-fimbriate beneath and sparsely pilose, the hairs often forming tufts around the individual glandular fimbriae, appearing substellate;  venation obscure but seemingly pinnately-nerved with 2-3 secondary nerves arising up to midlength, the midrib, secondary nerves, and veinlets slightly raised on both surfaces but especially inconspicuous beneath;  petioles subterete, somewhat flattened abaxially, rugose, 3-6 mm long, pilose becoming glabrate.  Inflorescence axillary, clustered, composed of ca. 5-8 subsessile flowers, each subtended by a floral bract and two bracteoles;  rachis none;  floral bracts membranaceous, oblong, obovate, apically rounded, 4.5 mm long, marginally ciliate and sparsely glandular-fimbriate;  pedicel less than 1 mm long;  bracteoles basal, ovate, obtuse, keeled, 3-4 mm long, marginally ciliate and sparsely glandular-fimbriate.  Flowers 4(-5)-merous;  calyx pale green, articulate with the pedicel, pilose at the base and glabrous or sparsely pilose along lines of angle, 5-6 mm long;  hypanthium cylindric-obconic, 3-3.5 mm long, terete when fresh but often drying slightly 4-5 angled;  limb campanulate, 2-2.5 mm long including the lobes;  lobes triangular-ovate, acute, ca. 1.5 mm long;  sinuses acute;  corolla coriaceous, cylindric-campanulate, spreading distally, white, glabrous, 6.5 mm long, the lobes reflexed, broadly triangular, obtuse, 1.5-2 mm long;  stamens 4(-8), equal, 5.2 mm long;  filaments distinct, long-pilose ventrally and marginally, ca. 2.8 mm long;  anthers ca. 3.2 mm long including the tubules;  thecae 2.2 mm long, dehiscing by lateral clefts ca. 0.7 mm long;  ovary 4-locular;  style glabrous, 5.5 mm long;  disc pulvinate.  Fruit not seen.

    Distribution.  Endemic to N Peru (Amazonas) and known only from three collections.  Rare and probably endangered.