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Leaves 3–4-whorled, markedly discolorous, 2–8.5 × 0.5–4.5 cm, narrowly to broadly elliptic or oblong-elliptic, to narrowly lanceolate, ± rounded to acute or very shortly acuminate at the apex, broadly to narrowly cuneate or ± rounded at the base, often ± bullate, sparsely to fairly densely hairy above, the hairs not obscuring the ± glossy upper surface, very densely (rarely ± sparsely) continuously velvety-tomentose beneath with grey to pale ferruginous matted hairs, beneath which is a dense covering of short white papilla-like hairs; petioles short and stout, 1–1.5 mm long, densely pubescent; stipules 6–9 mm long, shortly joined at the base, subulate from an oblong-triangular base, pubescent.
A low growing woody shrub. There is a woody rootstock and one or several stems can grow from this. It grows 1 m high. The stems are hairy. The leaves are in rings of 3-4. They are 2-9 cm long by 1-5 cm wide. They are narrowly oval. There are 2-6 flowers in a group. The fruit is dark green and becoming black and shiny. They are 1 cm across.
Corolla distinctly apiculate with subulate tails in bud; yellow or cream-coloured; tube cylindrical, 2.5–3.5 mm long, glabrescent to pubescent outside; lobes narrowly lanceolate, about 3.5–5.5 mm long including the subulate appendage (0.5)1.5–2 mm long.
Suffrutex 0.3–1.2 m tall; stems simple, few to several (15) from the apical parts of a branching woody rhizome, reddish-brown or yellowish-green, covered with dense pale ferruginous hairs, or less often glabrous.
Fruit dark green becoming black and shining, crowned with calyx lobes, up to 10 mm in diameter and subglobose with 1–3 pyrenes, or when pyrenes reduced to 1 then fruit oblique.
Calyx tube 1–1.5 mm long, 7–10-toothed; teeth (1)1.5–2.5 mm long, triangular to triangular-lanceolate or subulate, often membranous usually pubescent.
Inflorescences 2–6-flowered, or flowers sometimes solitary; peduncles 3–9(12) mm long; pedicels 1.5–9(12) mm long, pubescent.
Pollen presenter yellow-green or whitish, coroniform, 0.75 mm long, sulcate, 3–4-lobed.
Erect undershrub from stout base 11/2-3 ft. high
Pale under surfaces to the leaves
Style up to 5–7.5 mm long.
Flowers greenish-yellow
Ovary 3–4-locular.
