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Brachyblast buds lanceolate; brachyblast usually developing a pair of normal leaves near base of the terminal 1(3)-flowered cyme, there being an outer involucre of scarious stipule-derived and leaf-derived bracts and an inner larger involucre of similarly derived bracts and bracteoles 2.5–10 × 2 × 4 mm, inside which the flower is subtended by a cupular bracteole sometimes with a subfoliaceous lobe.
Fruits yellow, yellow-orange or scarlet with greenish veins, or black (fide E.A. Robinson 6045), surrounded at the base by the imbricate bracts/bracteoles, 5 mm in diameter (dry), 7–8 × 8–9 mm (fide Lebrun), subglobose.
Corolla white or rose-coloured, sometimes spotted with violet at the throat and on the lobes; tube 1–4.2 cm long, narrowly cylindric, straight or slightly curved; lobes 5–10 × 1.5–4.5 mm, obtuse or ± acute at the apex.
Shrub or small tree, often more or less a liane, 0.6–4.5 m tall with ± horizontal branches; young shoots pubescent but usually soon glabrous, the thin reddish-brown bark peeling; flowering mostly when leafless.
A small tree or creeper. It can be 4.5 m long. The leaves are hairy and 1-7 cm long by 1-4 cm wide. The flowers are white. They have a scent. The fruit are yellow to orange.
Calyx tube 1 mm long; limb c. 1.5 mm long, truncate or ± denticulate or lobed.
Style exserted 2.4–2.5 mm, the stigmatic lobes c. 2 mm long.
Seeds up to 6 × 5 mm, plano-convex.
Flowers very sweet-scented.
