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Corolla 3.5–5 cm long, red, lobes yellow over vents, with darker red tips; narrow above vents in bud; basal swelling 5–6 × 3–4 mm, ellipsoid to obovoid-globose, with the tube constricted above for 4–6 mm; lobes erect, 8–11 mm long, upper two-thirds linear-oblanceolate.
Leaves usually alternate; petiole 5–20 mm long; lamina coriaceous, glaucous, 4–13 × 2–7 cm, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, sometimes slightly obovate, obtuse to rounded at apex, cuneate or rounded to attenuate at base, with the few main nerves all ascending.
Umbels (1)2–3(6)-flowered; peduncle 0–2(3) mm long; pedicels 0–2 mm long in an oblique saucer-shaped socket; bract (1.5)2–3 mm, cupular, ciliate, with a slight limb and sometimes puberulous on that side.
Well branched shrub extending to 1 m, glabrous; branchlets slightly compressed, soon terete, ultimately densely lenticellate.
Style slender, slightly expanded opposite filaments, narrowed to a neck 3–4 mm long; stigma 0.8–1 mm across, capitate.
Stamen filaments inflexed, thickened in distal 1–2 mm; tooth 0.3–0.5 mm long; anthers 2.5–3 mm long.
Calyx 2–4 mm long, cupular, shortly toothed, ciliolate, splitting unilaterally as corolla swells.
Berry red, 10 × 5–6 mm, oblong-obovoid, verrucose.
Receptacle 2–2.5 mm long.
