Small shrub about 0.6 m tall; branchlets slender, stellately tomentellous at first but soon becoming glabrous with brown purple bark. Leaf-blade up to 23 x 20 mm, broadly ovate, rotund, broadly obovate or rhombic, apex obtuse or truncate, base rounded, margin crenate or serrate, glabrous or very minutely and sparsely puberulent on the nerves beneath when young, venation reticulate, minutely glandular and when young often rather shining and viscid; petiole up to 5 mm long, slender, shortly pubescent; stipules up to 2 mm long, filiform, puberulous. Inflorescences axillary or apparently often opposite the leaves, usually 3-flowered; peduncles up to 5 mm long, slender, puberulent; pedicels similar, up to 5 mm long; bracts similar to the stipules and very caducous. Sepals about 5 x 1.5 mm narrowly oblong, apex acute, densely puberulent outside, glabrous within. Petals greenish yellow or greenish white, about 2/3 the length of the sepals, blade narrowly oblong, apex usually bifid, often pubescent near the base, basal nectariferous claw not wider than the base of the blade, about 1 mm long, pubescent at the sides and on the short upper ledge. Androgynophore glabrous for 1 mm below with a tomentose collar at the apex but not extended above the glabrous portion. Ovary ellipsoid, clasped by the saucer-like apex of the androgynophore, slightly 2-lobed, glabrous or very minutely papillose; style about 1.5 mm long, stigma-lobes broad. Fruit 7 mm in diam. (? immature), minutely glandular-papillose, later glabrescent, 2-lobed or 1-lobed by abortion.
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A small shrub. It grows about 60 cm tall. The branches are slender. The leaf blade is 23 mm long by 20 mm wide. They are broadly oval with a rounded base. The flowers are in groups of 3 in the axils of leaves. The petals are greenish-yellow. The fruit are 7 mm across. They usually have 2 lobes.
Small shrub, 0.6 m high. Leaf blades broadly ovate, rotund, broadly obovate or rhombic, not discolorous. Fruit (1)2-lobed. Flowers greenish yellow or greenish white.
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