Shrubs, 1-2 m tall. Roots fleshy, moniliform. Branches puberulent to hispidulous, with 8 alternately thick and thin striae, with few deciduous or persistent spines 2-6 mm. Petiole of developed leaves 1-2 mm, glabrous or sparsely puberulent to puberulent or hirtellous; leaf blade drying stiffly papery, ovate to oblong-ovate, lanceolate, or oblong-lanceolate, 3-6(-8) × 1-2.5(-3) cm, adaxially glabrous, abaxially glabrous or puberulent along veins, base cuneate to rounded, margins flat to thinly revolute, apex shortly acuminate or acute; midrib thinly prominent adaxially; secondary veins 3 or 4(-7) pairs; stipules persistent, interpetiolar, triangular, 0.3-1 mm, puberulent to glabrescent, acute to glandular-multifid or-fimbriate. Inflorescences strigillose to puberulent. Pedicels 1-2 mm. Calyx strigillose to glabrescent; hypanthium portion obconic, 1.2-1.5 mm; limb 1-1.5 mm, lobed for 1/3-1/2; lobes triangular to ovate. Corolla white, outside glabrous; tube 8(-13) mm; lobes ovate-triangular, ca. 2 mm. Drupes ca. 5 mm in diam., with pedicels sometimes elongated to 5 mm. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. Oct-Dec.
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