Region: Brazil, Bahia.
BotanyShrub, up to 3 metres; upright shoot axes of 5 centimetres diameter, green and fleshy when young, light brown and lignified with age; densely hairy; glandularly sticky.
Leaves: opposite; heart-shaped to triangular or arrow-shaped with a heart-shaped base and a tapering upper end; 20 centimetres long; less lobed and serrated; dark green surface with imprinted veining, underside is paler with protruding veining; petiole rather long; stipules are missing.
Inflorescence: up to 70 centimetres long, contains numerous flowers and towers above the leaves; bracts linear-lanceolate, to 25 millimetres long, narrow-lanceolate, remain until fruit ripeness.
Flower; hermaphroditic; zygomorphic; five-folded; stems are up to 1.5 centimetres long during grafting and extend up to 2 centimetres until fruit ripeness.
Calyx: 5 sepals, pointed, fused like spatha, forming a bloated urn, closing completely when ripe, glandular-hairy.
Corolla: 5 petals, pale yellow to pale green, with purple to chestnut-red spots or sap marks fused into lines; glandular-haired; fused in a funnel-shaped to bell-shaped manner; ± 5 cm long, ± 2 xm wide; double-lipped.
Stamens: 4, slightly downward pointing, fertile stamens, ± 2 cm long; one staminodium
Ovary: small, upper, bicameral contains four ovules; fleshy nectar disc under it; pistil thread-like ends in a double-lobed scar.
Fruit: hairy, sticky, green, fleshy capsule, ovoid-elliptical; up to 4 centimetres long and a diameter, 2 centimetres broad; pericarp is sloping; endocarp woody, very hard is self-contained, sculpted, with reduced or inconspicuous adaxial ridge; dark brown when ripe, with a very short beak or two very small horns; two to four seeds, which remain inside.
Seeds: oblong, up to 2 centimetres long.