Plant erect or spreading, red-brown-to white-tomentose on young shoots, inflorescence, flowers and fruits, otherwise glabrous; epicortical runners absent. Leaves elliptic to ovate, rounded; lamina 3-9 cm long, 14-45 mm wide, attenuate at base into a distinct terete petiole 5-12 mm long. Inflorescence a pedunculate umbel of triads, the central flower sessile, the laterals pedicellate; peduncle slender, 5-14 mm long; rays of umbel 2, 1-3 mm long, not strongly divergent; pedicels 0.5-1 mm long; bracts usually 2 mm long, acute or rounded, but rarely the central bract foliose and up to 14 mm long and 7 mm wide. Calyx entire or 5-lobed, c. 1 mm long. Corolla in mature bud slender, 18-30 mm long, 5-merous, clavate, green or red. Anthers c. 2 mm long, c. one-fifth length of free part of filament. Fruit ellipsoidal, 6-9 mm long.
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