Shrubs 1-2 m tall. Branches 4-angled. Leaf blade ovate, 8-20 cm, abaxially glandular dotted, base cordate, margin shallowly dentate, apex acuminate. Panicles terminal, bright red, to 25 cm. Flowers odorless. Corolla tube slender, ca. 1 cm; lobes oblong, subequal, spreading. Stamens red to purplish, ca. 2 cm, deflexed to recurved. Fruiting calyx enlarged, red, spreading to reflexed. Fruit blue, depressed globose, ca. 1 cm in diam.
Thickets, secondary forests, and damp places, at low and medium elevations. Dry evergreen, lower montane rain, lower montane pine-oak and mixed deciduous forests, at elevations from 150-1,300 metres
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