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Corolla buds 2.5–2.7 cm long, reddish with darker tip, a little swollen in lower part, tapered to vents 11 mm from base, then narrow to a slight oblong-ellipsoid apical swelling 5–6 mm long, slightly apiculate; tube with very small scattered papillae inside, most numerous basally and along sutures; open flowers not seen, but lobes presumably erect.
Leaves sessile, thin, glaucous, purple-flushed above when young, mostly 3–5 × 1–2 cm, lanceolate to ovate, acuminate, basally cordate, with c. 6 pairs of lateral nerves (lower ones slightly more ascending), but leaves towards base of flowering branchlets progressively smaller, blunter and rounded to oblate.
Flowers 4–6 per umbel; peduncle 2–3 mm long; pedicels 3–4 mm long; bract 1–1.5 mm long, acuminately triangular from a shallow cup, ciliolate at tip.
Small glabrous shrub with mostly rather short spreading flowering branchlets; twigs slightly compressed.
Stamen filaments 10–11 mm long; tooth subulate, 1.8 mm long; anthers 3 mm long.
Berry white below, pink above, 6 × 5 mm, obovoid; seed white.
Calyx 0.3–0.4 mm long, minutely ciliolate.
Receptacle 1–1.5 mm long, glaucous.
