Plant spreading to pendulous, glabrous. Leaves lanceolate to elliptic, acute to rounded; lamina 6-12 cm long, 2-6 cm wide, usually shining above and dull below, attenuate or contracted at base into petiole 2-8 mm long, reticulate venation distinct. Inflorescence axis slender, 5-14 mm long, rarely to 28 mm, bearing 1-6 decussate pairs of triads or single flowers on peduncles usually 4-8 mm long; pedicels of lateral flowers of triad, if present, 2-4 mm long; bracts triangular, 1 mm long. Calyx obscure, 0.3 mm long. Corolla in mature bud 28-38 mm long, inflated in middle, acute, usually red, often grading into green in upper part and yellow at apex. Anthers 3-4 mm long, slightly longer than free part of filament. Style articulate 1-3 mm above base. Fruit globose, 10-12 mm diam. red or purple.