Shrubs or trees, 2-5 m tall; branches hirtellous or pilosulous to glabrescent, compressed to angled or subterete, with thorns 3-10 mm. Petiole 2.5-10 mm, hirtellous or pilosulous to glabrous; leaf blade drying papery to stiffly papery, brownish green, oblong-ovate, elliptic-lanceolate, or ovate, 3.5-7 × 1.5-5 cm, adaxially glabrous and shiny, abaxially glabrous or sparsely strigillose on principal veins, base cuneate to obtuse or subrounded, apex acute to acuminate; secondary veins 4-6 pairs, in abaxial axils with foveolate and/or pilosulous domatia; stipules lanceolate to triangular, 2-5 mm, strigillose to glabrous, acuminate. Inflorescences cymose, 2.5-3 × 3-4 cm, 5-to several flowered, branched to several orders, pilosulous or hirtellous to glabrous; peduncle 4-10 mm; bracts and bracteoles lanceolate or triangular, 2-4 mm, acute; pedicels 1-3 mm. Calyx puberulent or strigillose to glabrous; ovary portion obconic, ca. 1 mm; limb 2-3 mm, partially lobed; lobes triangular, 1-1.5 mm, acute. Corolla white to greenish white or perhaps yellow, glabrous outside; tube 5-6 mm; lobes spatulate, ca. 5 mm, obtuse. Fruiting pedicels ca. 6 mm. Berry globose, 5-8 mm in diam., glabrous. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. May-Dec.
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