Shrubs evergreen, low. Branches creeping, usually rooting at nodes. Branchlets dark grayish brown to grayish black, terete, initially yellowish appressed pilose, glabrous when old. Petiole 2–3(–10) mm, initially yellowish pilose, glabrous when old; stipules mostly caducous, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, 2–4 mm, puberulent; leaf blade elliptic to oblong-elliptic or obovate, 1–2(–3) × 0.7–2.2 cm, thickly leathery, lateral veins 4–6 pairs, somewhat raised abaxially and impressed adaxially, abaxially slightly glaucous, initially appressed pilose, glabrate, adaxially lustrous, glabrous, base broadly cuneate to rounded, apex obtuse, emarginate, or ± acute. Inflorescences ca. 1 cm in diam., usually 1-flowered, rarely 2-or 3-flowered corymbs; bracts linear-lanceolate, 2–3 mm, pilose. Pedicel 4–6 mm, rarely to 1.5 cm, pilose. Hypanthium campanulate, abaxially puberulent. Sepals triangular, 1.5–2 mm and nearly as broad, apex acute. Petals spreading, white, suborbicular or broadly ovate, 4–5 mm in diam., glabrous, base shortly clawed, apex obtuse. Stamens 20, unequal in length; anthers purple. Ovary pilose apically; styles (3 or)4 or 5, free, nearly as long as stamens. Fruit bright red, subglobose, 6–7 mm in diam., glabrous, pyrenes (3 or)4 or 5. Fl. May–Jun, fr. Sep–Oct. 2n = 34*.
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Shrubs, to 0.2 m. Stems carpeting or procumbent, ?rooting, to 1.5 m, pliant?; branches distichous or spiraled, greenish to light brown, ?densely lenticellate?, initially pilose-strigose. Leaves persistent; petiole 2–9 mm, villose-strigose; blade elliptic or obovate, rarely suborbiculate, 13–43 x 6–26 mm, coriaceous, base cuneate or obtuse, margins revolute, veins 5–8, sunken, apex obtuse or acute, rarely retuse, abaxial surfaces grayish green, ?reticulate?, initially villous, adaxial light green to green, intensely shiny, not glaucous, reticulate-rugose, not bulging between lateral veins, often single hairs on midrib. Inflorescences on fertile shoots 20–40 mm, usually with 4 leaves, (1 or)2 or 3(or 4)-flowered, compact. Pedicels 4–15 mm, thin, villose-strigose. Flowers ?slightly pendent?, 10–12 mm diam.; buds white; hypanthium cupulate, sparsely pilose-strigose; sepals: margins sparsely villous, apex obtuse or acute, surfaces sparsely pilose-strigose; petals spreading, white, glabrous; stamens 20, filaments white, anthers purple-black; styles 4 or 5. Pomes bright red, obovoid to broadly obovoid, rarely globose, 6–10 x 6–8 mm, shiny, not glaucous, glabrous; sepals suberect, glabrous; navel open; style remnants at apex. Pyrenes 4 or 5. 2n = 34 (Germany).
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