Shrub with pendent or almost prostrate, 0.5-0.8 m long, densely leaved branches, which are few-branched distally and clothed with numerous longish spreading, gland-bearing bristles except the tips and the floral region, where a tomentum of short fine crisped hairs is found exclusively. Leaves ovate, apex ± acuminate, base cordate, subsessile, coriaceous, dull, mature ones dark green, young ones glaucescent, very shortly hairy at the petiole and midrib, otherwise glabrous above, laxly set with glandular bristles or finally blackish red points below, (2-)2.5-3.5 by (1.5-)2-3 cm, narrowly serrate, each tooth ending in a rather persistent long glandular bristle, midrib and nerves slightly or not raised above, more so beneath, reticulation dense, conspicuous on both faces; petiole c. 1 mm. Panicles terminal, erect, ± condensed, many-flowered, formed by the racemes from the axils of several uppermost, very reduced leaves, and additional racemes from the axils of 1-3 successive lower, almost normal leaves. Rachises (2-5 cm) and pedicels (2-3 mm) covered with a fine greyish pubescence; no bristles. Bracteoles inserted immediately below the calyx, ovate-acute, ciliate, 2 mm. Calyx glabrous, lobes narrow-ovate, ciliate distally, 2 mm. Corolla urceolate, white, glabrous, c. 4.5 by 2 mm, lobes 1 mm. Filaments papillose, 1.5 mm; anthers ovate-oblong, 1 mm, each cell biaristate. Ovary densely hairy; style glabrous, 2.5 mm. Fruit c. 4 mm ø, blackish bluish at full maturity.
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