Shrub, 1-3 m. Branchlets early corticate, bark peeling off, glabrous or with very short glandular hairs or stalked glands. Leaves subrotundate-elliptic or ± broadly obovate, apex rounded to slightly retuse, apiculate by a thick protruding gland, base nearly rounded to rather abruptly attenuate into the petiole, dark green, dull on both faces, coriaceous, glabrous except some scattered glandular points underneath, margin strongly revolute in dry specimens, 3-5 by 1.5-3(-4) cm, 3-5-plinerved, midrib and nerves impressed above, slightly or not raised beneath; petiole rather thick, 0.5-1 cm. Flowers mostly 3-4 per fascicle, occasionally only 2 or 1 in other axils of the same specimen. Pedicels slender, laxly and shortly hairy initially, early glabrescent, 0.7-1.3 cm. Bracteoles ovate, acute, ciliate, 1 mm. Calyx turbinate, glabrous, 2.5 mm, lobes ovate, obtuse, ciliolate, 1.5 mm. Corolla urceolate, slightly contracted at the limb, c. 6 mm, white, glabrous, lobes reflexed, 1 mm. Filaments filiform, glabrous, 3 mm; anthers oblong, echinulate, 0.9 mm; tubules rather slender, 0.9 mm. Ovary glabrous; style 5 mm. Fruit first red, finally nearly blackish, c. 5 mm ø.
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