Suffrutescent herbs up to 30 cm. high; stems sparingly branched, ascending, rooting at the lower nodes, 3.5 mm. in diameter, minutely hirsute, the hairs less than 0.25 mm. long, spreading to appressed; in- ternodes short, 1 to 2 cm. long; leaf blades oblong-elliptic, up to 17 em. long and 6 cm. wide, acuminate at apex, the tip itself blunt, nar- rowed at base, sometimes abruptly so and briefly decurrent on the petiole, firm, subbullate, the margins entire or undulate, the upper surface glabrous or the costa and lateral veins (6 to 8 pairs) bearing a few minute hairs, the lower surface drying a lighter green than the upper, the costa and veins pubescent, the hairs spreading and strongly curved, the venation of both surfaces fairly prominent, the leaf sur- faces minutely alveolate; petioles (unwinged portion) 1 to 1.5 cm. long, pubescent, the hairs curved; spikes terminal, 8 to 13 cm. long, 8 to 10 mm. broad, the rachis winged, sparingly puberulous; bracts lanceo- late, 19 mm. long, 6 mm. wide exclusive of teeth, slenderly acuminate, forming an angle of 10 degrees with the rachis, the margins about 6 mm. above base and immediately below apex bearing 4 or 5 slender ascending teeth up to 2 mm. long, both surfaces finely puberulous, the three principal veins prominent, indurate at base, the veinlets coarsely reticulate toward tip of bracts; bractlets subulate, 3.5 mm. long, about 0.5 mm. wide at base, puberulous; calyx puberulous, striate, the pos- terior segment oblong-lanceolate, 6.5 mm. long, slightly over 2 mm. wide, tipped by 2 or 3 slender lobes 0.5 to 1 mm. long, the anterior and middle pair of calyx segments lanceolate, 6 to 7 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, ending in slender acuminate or subulate tips; corolla red, about 4.5 cm. long, minutely and sparingly pubescent without, glabrous within ex- cept a narrow longitudinal band extending from basal part of middle lobe to below mouth of corolla tube, the lobes ciliolate, the tube about 2 mm. broad at base, gradually enlarged to 5 mm. at mouth, the upper lip erect, oval, about 7 mm. long and 5 mm. wide, obtusish and minutely apiculate at tip, the lower lip spreading, the middle lobe elliptic, 13 mm. long, 8 mm. wide, obtuse or rounded, the lateral lobes obovate, 6 mm. long, 4.5 mm. wide, rounded at their tips; stamens equaling or slightly exceeding the upper lip, the anthers barely 4 mm. long, lightly adhering at tip, the filaments sparingly hirsute; ovary glabrous; capsules not seen. 

Type in the Uribe Herbarium, collected in the forests of Dabeiba, Department of Antioquia, Colombia, 400 meters altitude, January 11, 1947, by Lorenzo Uribe-Uribe (No. 1437). Fragment in the U. S. National Herbarium.
Aphelandra uribei can be recognized readily by its ascending stems with short internodes and by its narrow, slenderly acuminate, toothed bracts. There may be some relationship between this and A. aurantiaca.