Shrubs or scramblers up to 2 m high, little branched. Leaves opposite, obovate to rarely oblanceolate, 20-45(-55) x (10-) 15-25 mm, cuneate, usually acute, dorÂsiventrally compressed and somewhat conÂcave above, convex below, glabrous, often with flaking wax (silvery flakes on dried specimens), usually yellowish green with a deep red margin almost around the whole leaf. Inflorescence a thyrse with 1, 2 (3) diÂchasia, each with few flowers; peduncle slender, 0,15-0,25(-0,3) m long, glabrous. Calyx: lobes triangular, 3-A mm long, acute, glabrous to pubescent. Corolla usually orange-red; tube almost cylindrical, 12—15 mm long, glabrous on inside and outside; lobes lanceolate. Squamae transversely obÂlong, 0,8-1 x 1,7-2 mm, emarginate, very fleshy, pale yellow.
