Shrub, c. 1 m. Branchlets subterete, glabrous, dark brown red when dry. Leaves ovate-oblong or-lanceolate, apex gradually acuminate, the terminal gland rather small, base cuneate, subcoriaceous, olivaceous or brown above when dry, paler beneath, dull, glabrous, very laxly or not punctate beneath, ± regularly serrate, the teeth glandular, obtuse, c. 1 mm high and 2-3 mm spaced, 4-5.5(-6) by (1.7-)2-3 cm, midrib flat or slightly sunken above, reddish when dry, prominent beneath, nerves c. 4 pairs high curved-ascending and anastomosing, rather inconspicuous above, raised beneath, veins and veinlets forming a rather dense reticulation which is distinctly prominent beneath only; petiole thick, glabrous, 2-3(-4) by 1 mm. Racemes simple, mostly axillary, sometimes the uppermost pseudoterminal, slender, ± erect, 8-12-flowered, practically eperulate at anthesis. Rachis c. 0.5 mm ø, rather densely clothed with short spreading hairs as are the pedicels, these 3-5 mm long. Bract lanceolate, ciliate, 2-3 mm. Bracteoles inserted immediately below the calyx, ovate, ciliate, 2 mm. Calyx reddish, 2.5 mm, glabrous, lobes ovate ciliolate. Corolla subcampanulate, green-white with reddish base, 3.5-4 by 3(-4) mm, 5-partite nearly halfway, glabrous. Filaments papillose, 1 mm; anthers ovate-oblong, c. 1.5 mm, the very short tubules biaristate. Ovary yellowish hairy; style glabrous, 2 mm. Fruit apparently blackish purple when ripe, c. 6 mm ø.
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