Small shrub with short spreading flowering branchlets mostly 5–20 cm. long; twigs subterete to slightly quadrangular, scurfy puberulous at least on younger internodes, soon glabrescent.. Leaves smaller towards the base of flowering branchlets, grading to bud scales; petiole 0–4 mm. long, scurfy puberulous in groove; lamina thin, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-elliptic, 2–6 cm. long, 0.8–2.5 cm. wide, acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base (small proximal leaves broader and blunter), scurfy puberulous, soon glabrescent, with 3–6 pairs of lateral nerves, lower 1–3 pairs strongly ascending.. Flowers 2–4 per umbel; peduncles 0.5–2 mm. long, subglabrous or with minute hairs; pedicels 2.5–5 mm. long; bract ovate-triangular from a cupular base, 1.5–2 mm. long, ciliolate.. Receptacle 0.8–1 mm. long, broader than long.. Calyx 0.3–0.5 mm. long, ciliolate.. Corolla (1.3–)1.7–2.2 cm. long, yellow-orange, sometimes more yellow or greenish at the base, with red tips to buds and expanded lobes; buds slightly 4-angular, slightly swollen at the base, slightly bossed over vents, with a slight apical swelling 4 mm. long, a little wrinkled below apical swelling; tube (5–)7–9 mm. long, with V-slit extending nearly to the base, smooth inside; lobes reflexed or revolute about the middle, linear-spathulate.. Stamen-filaments dark red or brown, tightly coiled, extended at the base as a ridge 2–3 mm. down the corolla-tube; tooth 0.4–0.5 mm. long; anthers 2.5–3 mm. long.. Berry bright red, sometimes white at the base, pear-shaped to almost obconic, 5–7 mm. long, 4 mm. in diameter.. Fig. 8/6–11 (p. 35).
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