| Shape | Erect shrub. |
| Cultivation | Requires light shade. |
| Habitat | Open mountains in Costa Rica. |
| Bark/Stem Description | Young stems are red and hairy while older parts are woody with brown flaky bark. |
| Leaf Description | The leaves are opposite with a 4 mm long petiole. The leaf blade is 1-3 cm long and 3-9 mm wide, narrowly elliptic and is somewhat hairy on both sides. Leaves are pointed at both ends with 3-5 major veins in a palmate arrangement while secondary veins form a ladder-like arrangement between the primary veins. |
| Flower Description | The flowers are dark pink, radially symmetrical and about 4 cm wide. There are 4 petals to each bloom which are widest near the tip with each petal being about 2 cm long and nearly as wide. The stamens are yellow and red with the calyx lobes and floral base red. The bracts are leaf-like while the flowers are solitary or paired and are often abundant frequently covering the shrub. |
| Fruit Description | Fruits at first red, surrounded by persistent red calyx, 4-parted, becoming dry, often with numerous seeds. |
