Stem 0.5–1.6 m thick, glabrescent, green to green-red. Inflorescence single or fasciculate, raceme or panicle, 1–5-flowered; peduncles to 7 mm long. Floral bracts in 2 planes; bract triangular, obtuse, c. 1.5 × 1 mm, fleshy, peltate, green, turning brown and leathery; bracteoles ovate, c. 1.1 × 1 mm, slightly pubescent, ciliate, turning leathery when supporting fruit. Pedicel 0.5-1 × 0.3–0.5 mm. Flowers globose to ovoid, c. 2 × 1.5 mm, green, later yellow. Sepals triangular-ovate, c. 1 mm long, green, fleshy, sometimes with few white hairs. Petals triangular-ovate, c. 1.5 × 1.5 mm, subacute-obtuse, fleshy, first greenish, later yellowish on margins, slightly pubescent outside, densely so inside. Fertile stamens 9, first greenish, with staminodes and glands turning white. Staminodes obcordate, acute, c. 0.5 mm, without appendages; glands ovate, c. 0.4 mm, without appendages. Ovary fusiform, c. 1 × 0.5 mm, glabrous. Fruit obovoid, 7–9 × 5–6, glabrescent with few scattered hairs, slightly 6-ribbed, pale green to yellow and red spots, drying black. Glandular rim well-developed, especially on young fruits.
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