Spreading shrub to 4.5 m tall; young stems shortly stellate-pubescent.. Leaves elliptic, 2.3–8.5 cm long, 0.9–3.4 cm wide, acuminate at the apex, rounded at the base, margin serrate, roughly hairy above, denser beneath; petiole 2–5 mm long, densely pubescent; stipules subulate, to 6 mm long.. Inflorescence a 3-flowered cyme, 1–2 in a leaf-axil; peduncle very reduced, up to 3 mm long; pedicels 5–7 mm long, densely to sparsely pubescent.. Flowers yellow; sepals 4–9 mm long, densely pubescent on the outside; petals oblong, 3–6 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide.. Androgynophore ± 0.5 mm long, glabrous.. Stamens 4–5 mm long.. Ovary 1–1.5 mm long, densely hairy; style 3–4 mm long.. Fruit subglobose to obovoid, often obliquely so, 7–8 mm long, 5–7 mm wide, yellow-green, tuberculate-hairy.. Fig. 7 (p. 38).
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