Glabrous shrub or small tree to 7 m tall; twigs stout or slender, drying stramineous. Leaves mostly 10-15 cm long, narrowly ovate or elliptical, narrowed at each end, the apex long acuminate, the margins slightly revolute, 6-10 in-conspicuous veins on each side of the midvein, drying yellowish green; petioles slender, ca. 1 cm long; minor leaves present or not. Inflorescences several, axillary or terminal; the peduncle 3-8 cm long bearing several leafy bracts and re-sembling a slightly reduced leafy shoot, the flowers terminal on the axis in a small, several-flowered panicle; pedicels short or obsolete, rarely to 3 mm long, leaving a cicatrix on the peduncle; bracteoles conspicuous, 3-4(-10) mm long, lanceolate. Flowers slender, calyx 4-5 mm long, campanulate or short tubular, glabrous, prominently costate with prominent, sometimes reflexed acuminate lobes; corolla greenish, sometimes tinged with purple, the tube 24-30 mm long, slender but widening in the upper portion to ca. 3.5 mm across, outside glabrous, inside sparingly pubescent below the point of stamen insertion, the lobes 5-7 mm long, lanceolate; stamens equal, filaments 5 mm free, geniculate, tumid, dentate and sometimes barbellate at the point of insertion, puberulent below. Fruit dark, ca. 8 mm long, obovoid.
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