Branched shrub 1–3 m. tall, erect or branches sometimes subprostrate; youngest parts pubescent; older with scaly bark.. Leaves elliptic, elliptic-oblong or sometimes oblanceolate, 1.5–6(–18) cm. long, 1–5 cm. wide, rounded to bluntly subacuminate at the apex, wrinkled at the margins, scabrid-pubescent above, mostly densely pubescent beneath; petioles 0–2 mm. long; stipules ovate-triangular, 4 mm. long, hairy.. Flowers fragrant.. Calyx-tube 4 mm. long, densely hairy; tubular part of limb (4–)6–8 mm. long, densely pubescent, divided into ± 6 linear to linear-oblong lobes, subulate and ± acute at the apex, 2–4 mm. long, pubescent.. Corolla white or cream, turning yellow; tube cylindric, (1.2–)2.5–4 cm. long, slender, densely adpressed pubescent outside; lobes 6, elliptic, 2–2.5 cm. long, 1–1.5 cm. wide, sparsely pubescent outside.. Fruit globose to ellipsoid, 2–4 cm. long, 1.5–2.5 cm. diameter, very obscurely to distinctly ± 14-ribbed, the epidermis often scaly.
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A shrub. It loses its leaves during the year. It grows 2-3 m high. The bark is smooth and yellowish. The branches are hairy. The leaves are in rings and are hairy on both sides. They are oval and 6 cm long by 2 cm wide. The flowers are white to yellow. They are small and 2-4 cm long. They have a straight tube with spreading petals at the end. The fruit is narrowly oval and barrel shaped. They are 4 cm long and yellow.
A savanna shrub, to 9 ft. high
Flowers yellow, fragrant.
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