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Plant erect to pendulous, glabrous and often glaucous. Internodes terete, sometimes slightly compressed when young. Leaves narrowly to broadly elliptic, rounded; lamina 4-10 cm long, 1.5-4 cm wide, attenuate or contracted at base into a distinct but often winged petiole 3-10 mm long, often finely recurved at margin; venation distinct on both surfaces. Inflorescence axis 20-45 mm long, bearing 4-7 pairs of triads on peduncles 1-4 mm long; all flowers sessile; bracts 1-2.5 mm long, the central one often longer than the laterals, rounded. Calyx entire, 0.5-1 mm long. Corolla in mature bud 18-25 mm long, red, orange or pink below, yellow or green above; petals united in lower 0.5-2 mm. Anthers 2-3 mm long, about equal to free part of filament. Fruit ellipsoidal to globose, 8-10 mm long, sometimes longitudinally striped.
Leaves broadly elliptic, attenuate or contracted at base into a distinct terete petiole 4-10 mm long, usually not glaucous. Calyx limb 0.5 mm long.
