Shrub or tree to 6 m tall; twigs glabrous to puberulent, sometimes tomentose. Leaves small, mostly to ca. 5 cm long, elliptical, mostly acute or obtuse apically and basally, glabrous or puberulent above, beneath puberulent on the veins and vestite with scattered or dense hairs on the lamina; petiole to 5 mm long; minor leaves large or absent. Inflorescence axillary or terminal, several flowers congested on a short, stout peduncle; pedicels short, glabrous, becoming stout in fruit. Flowers inconspicuous, calyx to 3 mm long, glabrous within and pilose outside, the nerves obscure; corolla greenish-yello'w, the tube ca. 20 mm long, slender with a bulbous enlargement at the apex, glabrous outside, sparingly pubescent within, sometimes pilose at the base, the lobes lanceolate, 4-6 mm long; stamens equal, the filaments inserted at the apex of the corolla tube, 0.5 mm long free, straight, edentate, smooth, glabrous, the anthers oblong, 0.75 mm long; ovary stipitate, the ovules ca. 10, the stigma included but exceeding the anthers by 1 mm. Fruit to 15 mm long, obovoid, ripening through pink to purple-black; seeds 5.5 mm long.
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