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Calyx glabrous or minutely puberulous; tube 1.5–2 mm long; limb-tube 1.25–2 mm long, truncate to repand or sometimes with short teeth (not in Flora Zambesiaca area), ciliate, within densely pubescent and with interspersed colleters.
Inflorescences terminal, sessile or with a peduncle up to 1.9 cm long, often supported by rudimentary leaves; primary branches 0.6–1.4 cm long; pedicels 0.3–1.9 cm long; bracteoles scale-like, always 2 in middle of pedicel.
Corolla whitish or yellow; tube ± cylindrical, (1.5)3–5 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide at top, glabrous outside, pubescent at throat; lobes 5–6 × 1.75–2 mm, oblong, obtuse, sometimes auriculate at base.
Shrub, small tree or climber, (0.75) 2.5–6 m tall, glabrous; young branches terete, covered with pale to dark reddish-brown shiny bark, sometimes becoming greyish with age, always flaking.
Seed blackish-brown, spherical, 5 mm in diameter, finely rugose; hilar cavity inconspicuous; endosperm deeply ruminate.
Fruit ripening to red, globose, 5–8 mm in diameter, 1-seeded; calyx limb persistent.
Placenta ovate with usually 3 ovules impressed on the upper part.
