Slender shrub probably almost identical in habit with C. semseii but less leafy; stems slender, dull purplish brown, longitudinally striate and with peeling fissured epidermis, glabrous save for dense white bristle-like hairs within the stipule-base remnants.. Leaves borne on very short lateral shoots, oblong to lanceolate, up to 3.5 cm. long, 1.3 cm. wide (fide collector), ± obtuse to narrowly attenuate, lanceolate at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrous; petiole 2–3 mm. long.. Cymes axillary 1–2-flowered; peduncle and pedicels up to 4 mm. long; bracts linear-lanceolate 1 cm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, attenuate at apex.. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, 1.2 cm. long, 2–2.5 mm. wide, attenuate at apex.. Corolla (in bud only) yellow, ± 8 mm. long including 1 mm. long apical tails.. Ovary 2-locular, attenuate into pedicel.. Only fruit seen with only one locule developed.
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