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A shrub or small tree. It keeps its leaves throughout the year. It can grow up to 3.6 m high. It has weak stems and many branches. The leaves are fleshy. They are narrowly oval and 2.5 cm long by 2 cm wide. The leaf stalks are slender. The flowers are yellow or white. The petals are large. The fruit are narrow and fleshy. They contain several orange coloured seeds.
Sepals yellowish or yellowish-green, c. 1.2 x 0.6 cm., free, subequal, elliptic, the upper and lower folded longitudinally, the lateral sepals with a keeled midrib, acute at the apex, densely glandular-pubescent outside, puberulous inside.
Inflorescence of many-flowered, terminal, leafless racemes; rhachis up to 12 cm. long; pedicels up to 1.7 cm. long, with viscid, glandular hairs; bracts up to 1 cm. long subulate or linear-spathulate, glandular.
Leaf-lamina 2.5–9 x 1–5 cm., ovate or broadly elliptic, obtuse at the apex, mucronate, rounded or subcordate at the base, glandular-pubescent on both sides or soon glabrescent, midrib pale and prominent below.
Petals yellowish or cream, c. 1.7 x 0.15 cm., linear-spathulate with a claw as long as the lamina, sparsely puberulous, tapering to an acuminate apex.
Ovary cylindric, glandular-pubescent; ovules numerous, on 2 placentas; stigma subsessile, subapiculate, narrower than the ovary.
Androgynophore 6 mm. long, glabrous, with a basal narrowly funnel-shaped nectary 4 x 2 mm. with a dentate margin at the mouth.
Shrub up to 5 m. tall with the young branches covered with golden, viscid glands, older branches glabrescent, brown.
Stamens 5; filaments unequal, 0.5–1.2 cm. long, glabrous; anthers dark purple, 3 x 1.5 mm., oblong.
Seeds c. 3.5 mm. in diam., subglobose or irregularly compressed, with a smooth brown testa.
Fruit c. 6 x 0.5 mm., many-seeded, narrowly cylindric, subtorulose, densely viscid.
Gynophore c. 6 mm. long, glandular-pubescent.
