Epiphytic shrub to 3 m tall, vegetatively glabrous throughout;  mature stems and twigs terete, gray to light brown when dry.  Leaves elliptic, drying subcoriaceous, 5-8 x 2-3 cm, basally cuneate, apically acute, acuminate or tapering into a pronounced drip-tip 8-12 mm long;  venation pinnate, the midvein elevated proximally above sunken distally, elevated throughout beneath;  petioles dorsiventrally compressed, 6-11 mm long and 1.5-2 mm wide.  Inflorescences short-racemose or subcorymbose, 2-8-flowered;  rachis terete, smooth or weakly striate, 5-9 mm long;  pedicels terete, smooth to finely striate, 8-12 mm long at anthesis;  floral bracts ovate to oblong ovate, keeled, acute, irregularly and minutely marginally fimbriate, 1-1.2 mm long, appressed;  bracteoles slightly smaller and more closely appressed, ca. 1 mm long, minutely fimbriate.  Flowers with the calyx ca. 2 mm long, terete, ca. 2.5 mm in diam., sharply articulate with the pedicel, the disarticulating groove marked by fimbriae;  limb shallowly campanulate to flaring, ca. 1 mm long;  lobes 5, ca. 0.6 mm long, broadly triangular;  sinuses shallowly indented to almost flat;  corolla cylindric, abruptly contracted for the lower 1.5-2 mm where 2.2-2.5 mm in diam., 4-4.2 mm in diam. above, 8-9 mm long, "light pink," the lobes 5, triangular, acute, erect, 2-2.5 mm long;  stamens 10, 6-7 mm long;  filaments distinct or weakly coherent basally, flattened, 2-2.2 mm long and ca. 0.5 mm wide, distally ciliate;  anthers medifixed, 2-2.5 mm long;  thecae coarsely granular;  tubules 3-3.2 mm long, dehiscing by elongate, lateral clefts 2-2.5 mm long;  style exserted, 9-10 mm long.  Mature berry not seen.

    Distribution.  Endemic to central Panama, and only known from ca. 5 collections.