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Leaves opposite or subopposite; petiole 5–30 mm long; lamina leathery or slightly fleshy, glaucous, ± red flushed when young, 4–10 × 2–7.5 cm, elliptic-oblong, elliptic or ovate, bluntly pointed, narrowly to broadly cuneate and slightly decurrent at base; main lateral nerves 4–7 pairs, second to fourth strongly ascending, the well separated upper ones more spreading, or in broad leaves all more regularly spreading.
Corolla red or pink at base, white or grey above, the apical swelling darkening in ripe buds, lobes green or whitish inside, 2.5–4.5 cm long; apical swelling 2.5–3 mm across, obovoid, ± truncate, pentagonal, slightly reduplicate; basal swelling (3)4–6 × (2.5)3.5–4 mm, ellipsoid.
Umbels 1–3 in axils and at older leafless nodes; peduncle (2)5–35 mm long, sometimes with few aborted buds below the umbel; pedicels 3–9(18), (2)3–5 mm long; bract cup 0.5–1 mm long, with a triangular or bifid limb 0.5–1.5 mm long.
Twigs terete or elliptic in section, glabrous or scurfy on youngest parts; bark grey, rarely powdery.
Berry glaucous and turning dull purple, 10–12 × 9–10 mm, obovoid-globose, slightly verruculose.
Style constriction 2–4 mm long; stigma 1.2–1.5 mm across, peltate.
Inner anther thecae 2–4 mm long; outer ones 0.5–2.5 mm long.
Receptacle 1–1.2 mm long.
Calyx 0.3–0.7 mm long.
