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Corolla white or cream-coloured; tube very slender, 7–11 mm long, 1 mm in diameter, enlarged at the apex to 2.5 mm wide for c. 3 mm, strigose-pubescent outside; lobes 3 × 1.5–2 mm, narrowly ovate, acuminate.
Fruit red or blackish, c. 5 mm in diameter, ovoid or subglobose, ± pubescent; pedicel and calyx limb accrescent, 2–3 mm long; seeds 55–75.
Inflorescence a much contracted thyrse, 3–7 × 2–3 cm, the supporting node often with reduced leaves; true peduncle 0–2 cm long.
Calyx tube 1.5 mm long, ovoid, densely hairy; limb-tube papery, 1.2–1.5 mm long, denticulate.
Evergreen shrub 1.8–5 m tall; branchlets often reddish, pubescent later glabrescent.
Flower buds fusiform, apiculate, densely silvery strigose-pubescent.
Style and anthers just reaching to or beyond the corolla throat.
