Plant erect or spreading, glabrous except lower part of ovary white-tomentose; epicortical runners absent. Leaves elliptic to almost orbicular, rounded; lamina 23-70 mm long, usually 18-27 mm wide, cordate or truncate at base, sessile or rarely minutely petiolate. Inflorescence a pedunculate umbel of triads, the central flower sessile, the laterals pedicellate; peduncle slender, 10-18 mm long; rays of umbel 2, 2-4 mm long; pedicels 0.5-1.5 mm long; bracts 1.5-2.5 mm long, acute to rounded. Calyx entire or weakly toothed, 0.7 mm long. Corolla in mature bud slender, usually 15-20 mm long, 5-merous, clavate, red below, green above. Anthers 1.5-2 mm long, c. 1/4 length of free part of filament. Fruit ellipsoidal, 8-14 mm long, white-tomentose except at apex.
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