Home
Corolla 4–6 cm long, orange to pale flame-red, with yellow band around vents, bud tip darker and slightly ribbed, glabrous or very rarely with a few small scattered hairs; basal swelling 5–9 × 4–6 mm, ovoid-ellipsoid to ovoid-globose, with tube constricted 2–11 mm above; lobes erect, 9–11 mm long; upper expanded part 5–7 × 1–1.5 mm, linear-elliptic, hardened inside, keeled outside.
Leaves mostly subopposite, more alternate on long shoots, with smaller, more rounded, shorter petioled leaves clustered at base of lateral shoots; petiole 0.5–2(3) cm long; lamina glaucous (?always), coriaceous, 3–12 × 2–6 cm, lanceolate to ovate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic, bluntly pointed, cuneate or rounded at base, with 3–6 pairs of lateral nerves, lower ones more ascending.
Bushy shrub extending to 1.5 m, with relatively short lateral branches, glabrous except very occasionally on the inflorescences and even more rarely on youngest twigs; branchlets compressed at first, pruinose, soon terete, rather stout, brown to grey, with late emergence of lenticels.
Umbels or heads (4)6–16-flowered; peduncle 5–12 mm and pedicels 5–8 mm long, normally glabrous, occasionally puberulous; bract 1.5–2 mm long, ovate-triangular, pointed to truncate.
Stamen filaments inflexed; tooth 0.3–0.5 mm long; anthers 2.5–4 mm long.
Style with a neck 2.5–4 mm long; stigma 0.8–1 mm across, capitate.
Calyx 0.3–0.8 mm long, with broad shallow teeth.
Receptacle 2–3 mm long.
Berry not seen.
