Slender scrambling twiggy shrub or small tree, up to 5 m. tall.. Twigs glabrous, or papillose towards the extremities.. Leaf-blade linear-elliptic to oblong-elliptic, commonly 3–9 cm. long, 0.8–1.2 cm. wide, obtuse to acute, basally narrowed, leathery, pale green, glabrous, with the midrib often prominent beneath; petiole 5–10 mm. long.. Inflorescence a short often rather dense corymb, up to 5 cm. long; pedicels 1–2 cm. long, papillose.. Sepals 10–12 mm. long, glabrous or with scattered scales.. Petals narrowly elliptic, about 16 mm. long, clawed for about half their length.. Androphore 14 mm. long, glabrous; appendage 8–11 mm. long, with the apex long-protracted on the underside, subpetaloid; stamens (3–)4; filaments 8–12 mm. long, free; anthers 3.5–4 mm. long.. Gynophore ± 9 mm. long; ovary cylindrical.. Fruits cylindrical, up to about 15 mm. long, densely covered with sessile glands.
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