A diffuse and spreading shrub, 1-2.5 m high; branches spreading-ascending to erect; bark pale, light-grey to light-brown, more or less smooth; whole plant subglabrous, soon becoming more or less glabrous. Leaves alternate, petioled, petioles up to 5 mm long (usually 4-5 mm); leaf-blade narrowly elliptic to elliptic, 1-3 cm long and 0.5-1 cm broad, thinly coriaceous, glabrous or with a few scattered appressed hairs on the midrib and margins, glossy (when fresh) finely wrinkled (like old leather) when dry, slightly discolorous; nerves inconspicuous except for the midrib, margins revolute. Flowers dioecious, female or functionally male, pentamerous, solitary, axillary, about 1 cm long, white, pendulous; peduncle about 1 cm long, glabrescent to very sparsely appressed-hairy; bracts 2, linear, 3 mm long, involute. Calyx 5-partite, segments narrow, tapering towards the apex, apex acute, very sparsely strigose outside, sparsely pubescent inside. Corolla deeply 5-lobed, lobes ovate, acute, pubescent at the apex; tube very short. Stamens 10, 4 mm long, anthers linear-lanceolate, bristly especially on the connectives, and with a tuft of bristles at the base; filaments short and broad, glabrous. Ovary conical, densely covered with stiff erect bristles which obscure the shape; style branches 4, glabrous. Fruits globose, up to 1 cm long, thinly pubescent, with scattered long stiff yellowish bristles intermixed with very short hairs; calyx accrescent, very abruptly reflexed; segments lanceolate, 0.8-1.1 cm long, glabrescent. No ripe seeds seen.
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Shrub, 1.0-2.5 m high, whole plant subglabrous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, elliptic, coriaceous, glabrous or with few hairs on midrib and margins, glossy, finely wrinkled when dry, slightly discolorous, margins revolute. Bracts 2, linear, involute. Flowers female or functionally male, solitary, axillary, white, pendulous, pedunculate; stamens 10; ovary densely covered with stiff, erect bristles that obscure the shape. Fruit globose, with scattered, long, stiff, yellowish bristles intermixed with very short hairs.
A spreading shrub. It grows 1-2.5 m tall. The leaves are alternate and narrowly oval. They can have a few scattered hairs on the midrib. The edges curl back. The flowers are 10 mm long and white. They hang down from the axils of the leaves. The fruit is a round berry. It has long yellow bristles.
Diffuse, dioecious shrub to 2.5 m. Leaves petiolate, elliptic, glossy, margins revolute. Flowers solitary, axillary, white. Fruits thinly hairy.
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