Weak shrub or herb to 1.5 m tall, stems puberulent to villous with short, soft, simple hairs which flatten and crumple on drying. Leaves elliptical to ovate, mostly 6-8 mm long, apically acute or acuminate, basally acute or obtuse, often oblique, membranaceous, glabate on both sides, the major veins puberulent; petioles slender, to 18 mm long. Inflorescence a few-flowered fascicle or solitary, axillary, pedicels filiform, puberulent, ca. 3 mm long in flower, becoming 5-7 mm long and remaining slender in fruit. Flowers small, the calyx 1 mm long, subtruncate with 5 minute apical teeth, puberulent, in fruit becoming 7-9 mm long, ovoid, loosely enveloping the fruit; the corolla blackish purple, campanulate, puberulent, lobed about halfway down, the lobes obtuse, the margins short ciliate; the anthers ca. 1 mm long, oblong, slightly exserted. Fruit globose, ca. 5 mm across.
Home