Erect to prostrate ± fleshy often unbranched herb or subshrubby herb 0.6–1.5 m. tall from a large woody rootstock; stems ± densely shortly pubescent but not glandular; tendrils absent.. Leaves subsucculent, 5(–6)-foliolate; leaflets elliptic, narrowly obovate or oblanceolate, 3.5–23.5 cm. long, 1–12 cm. wide, ± acute at the apex, long-attenuate at the base, irregularly narrowly double crenate, the divisions rounded, glabrous to very shortly pubescent above, pubescent to velvety tomentose beneath; petiole 1.5–9.5 cm. long, pubescent like the stems; petiolules 0–1 cm. long but leaflets usually sessile; stipules oblong-tapering, 1.4–3.2 cm. long, 4–5 mm. wide, densely pubescent.. Cymes terminal, dichotomous, 4.5–20 cm. wide; peduncles 9–21 cm. long, with ferruginous indumentum as on stems and some short gland-tipped hairs; other axes with denser short ± black gland-tipped hairs; pedicels 4–10 mm. long, also with dense gland-tipped hairs; bracts and bracteoles small.. Buds red or green and brown, oblong, 2–3 mm. long, constricted just below the apex, pubescent and sparsely to densely covered with red gland-tipped hairs.. Calyx 1.5 mm. wide, densely pubescent.. Petals red, green at tips.. Fruits bright red, ellipsoid, 1–1.2 cm. long, 6–8.5 mm. wide, shortly pubescent and with short gland-tipped hairs and sessile glands.. Seeds ellipsoid, 7.5 mm. long, 5 mm. wide; ventral ridge strong with 1–2 ± faint transverse ridges; dorsal ridges evident, with numerous small tubercles but smooth near junction of the ridges.. Figs 16/4, p.71; 19, p.84.
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