Shrub, up to 2 m high, with few slender thorns. Branchlets with rigid white hairs. Leaves fascicled or alternate, shortly petiolate, green, glabrous; lamina ovate or ovate-rotund, 5-35 x 6-15 mm, apex rounded, base subcordate or rounded, margins serrulate, or acutely denticulate. Inflorescence lax, few-flowered; peduncle hairy. Flowers very small, ± 2 mm in diam., pink to dark red; pedicels ± 1 mm long, hairy. Sepals ovate-triangular, ± 0.5 mm long, margins ciliolate. Petals oblong, ± 1 mm long, margins subentire, wavy. Male flowers: stamens shorter than petals. Female flowers: staminodes shorter than stamens in male flowers; ovary 3-locular; stigma 3-branched. Fruit a 3-valved, obconic-trigonous capsule, 8-10 mm long, reddish, smooth, glabrous. Seeds completely enveloped by orange aril.
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Shrub, up to 1.5 m high, armed. Leaves ovate to ovate-elliptic, margin serrate or crenate-serrate. Capsule Leathery to almost woody. Flowers pink to red.
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