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A small evergreen shrub. It grows 50-100 cm high. It forms dense colonies. It has underground stems that branch often. The leaves are dark green and shiny above. They have a reddish-brown colour underneath. The flowers are white and they have a strong scent. The fruit are oval and brown.
Stems usually unbranched and less than 30 cm. high, but in the absence of fire up to 45 cm. high and sometimes sparsely branched.
Male flowers: Calyx 1·3 cm. long, fulvous–tomentose, lobes c. 0·6–0·7 cm. long.
Female flowers with several conspicuous bracts at the base up to 0·6 cm. long.
Rhizomatous suffrutex forming extensive colonies up to several metres across.
Fruit subglobose, c. 3·5 x 3·5 cm., fulvous–tomentose, at least when young.
Calyx 1–1·5 cm. long, fulvous–tomentose; lobes 0–5–0–8 cm. long.
Leaves similar to those of D. batocana but often much smaller.
Corolla c. 1·6 cm. long, lobes 0·8 x 0·6 cm.
Corolla 1·8 cm. long, lobes 0·7 cm. long.
Seeds 6, mature seeds unknown.
