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Corolla acuminate, tailed in bud; tube cream-greenish or yellow, 4–7 mm long, cylindrical or narrowly funnel shaped, ± densely spreading bristly-pubescent outside, with a ring of deflexed hairs inside; lobes yellow or bright orange, 3.5–4.5 × 1.5 mm, lanceolate, shortly appendaged, the appendage scarcely 1 mm long.
Suffrutex 20–60 cm tall with several stems from a woody rootstock, or less often a small tree 1.5 m tall; stems unbranched or branched, velvety-pubescent.
Cymes 3–7-flowered, congested, the common peduncle suppressed or up to c. 1.5–4 mm long; pedicels 2–4 mm long; bracts 1–2 mm long, oblong.
Calyx pubescent; tube 1–2 mm long, subglobose; limb scarcely 1 mm long, the teeth narrowly triangular, c. 1 mm long.
Fruit black, 5–9 × 8–12 mm, subglobose, distinctly lobed when dry, usually with (1)3–4 pyrenes 5–8 mm long.
Pollen presenter 0.75–1.25 mm long, coroniform, sulcate, 3–5-lobulate.
Style 5.5–8 mm long.
Ovary 3–5-locular.
Anthers dark red.
