Lophospermum nubicola Elisens Rhodochiton nubicola is a climbing or sprawling herbaceous perennial native to the state of Chiapas in Mexico and to Guatemala, where it grows in cloud forests at between 1,300 and 3,000 m (4,300 and 9,800 ft).

It has dangling flowers, with a bell-shaped calyx and dark purple petals forming a tube.

Unlike the better known Rhodochiton atrosanguineus, the petal tube is asymmetrical with two "lips".

[2] The specific epithet nubicola is a noun derived from Latin nubes, cloud, and -cola, dweller, thus meaning "cloud dweller".

[3] It was transferred from the genus Lophospermum to Rhodochiton by David A. Sutton in 1988.