Herbs, woody, to 3.5 m tall, the branchlets arising from the base or above, rarely restricted terminally, smooth, glabrous, delicately alate, the nodes well spaced. Leaves sessile, occasionally 3 per node, lanceolate, occasionally slightly falcate, to 5 cm long, to 1.2 cm wide, acute at the apex, obtuse to acute at the base, the costa prominulous above and beneath, the lateral veins ca. 5, arcuate, prominulous above and beneath, the intervenal areas reticulate, usually concol-orous, lustrous above, marginate; stipules deciduous. Inflorescences terminal, cymose paniculate, a peduncle like axis (really a primary cyme) often present, to 2 cm long, or the stem tip with 3 primary cymes, each with an axis terminated by a sessile flower and 2 lateral branches, these branching into small cymules, the more profusely branched inflorescences often flat topped; bracteoles tending to persist, subulate. Flowers with the hypanthium subrotund, truncate, ca. 0.8 mm long, glabrous, the calycine teeth 4, erect, linear oblong, ca. 0.8 mm long, obtuse, glabrous; corolla white, the tube cylindrical, ca. 6 mm long, petaloid, densely villose below the middle within, the lobes oblong, to 2 mm long, glabrous, not cucullate; stamens 4, the anthers exserted, oblong, to 1 mm long, dorsifixed, the filaments to 1.5 mm long, attached in the middle of the tube or below; ovarian disc bilobed, pulvinate, the stigmas 2, slender, to 0.3 mm long, the style slender, to 2.5 mm long, attenuate basally, the ovary irregularly ribbed, 2-carpellate. Fruits sessile, rotund and ca. 2 mm in diam. or bilobed (2 carpels developing) and then wider than long, drying black, marcescent, often reticulate, glabrous, usually marginate; bracteoles persistent, subulate.
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