Shrubs, 1-3 m tall; branches compressed to terete, puberulent to hirtellous or strigillose, with thorns 4-15 mm. Petiole 2-6 mm, puberulent to hirtellous or strigillose; leaf blade drying thinly papery, ovate, ovate-orbicular, lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate, 1-8.2 × 0.8-3 cm, adaxially glabrous, abaxially glabrous or strigillose to hirtellous at least on principal veins, base rounded to obtuse or broadly cuneate, apex acute to caudate-acuminate; secondary veins 2-4 pairs, in abaxial axils usually with pilosulous domatia; stipules triangular to narrowly triangular, 3-4 mm, strigillose to puberulent, acuminate to aristate. Inflorescences 1-flowered or cymose and 2-or 3-flowered, puberulent or strigillose to glabrescent; peduncles 3-10 mm, articulate when flowers solitary; bracts lanceolate, 2-3 mm; pedicels 6-10 mm. Calyx limb hirtellous to strigillose; ovary portion obconic, 1-1.5 mm; limb with tube 3.5-4 mm; lobes triangular to linear, 1-2 mm, apex acute. Corolla white, glabrous outside; tube 3-4.5 mm; lobes elliptic-oblong to ligulate, 5-5.5 mm, ciliolate, acute. Fruiting pedicels 5-15 mm. Berry globose, 5-6 mm in diam., pilosulous or strigillose to glabrescent; seeds ellipsoid to angled, ca. 3 mm. Fl. Apr, fr. May-Jan.
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