Shrubs or trees to 5 m tall, the branchlets terete, ultimately angular, minutely puberulent, the nodes well spaced. Leaves ternate toward the apex, broadly oblong to ovate, 13-23 cm long, 4-15 cm wide, rounded, obtuse or widely deltoid at the apex, rounded, subtruncate to cuneate basally, the costa plane to promi-nulous above and beneath, the lateral veins 11-15, membranous to chartaceous, glabrous above, glabrous to rufous puberulent beneath; petioles 6.0-9.5 cm long, glabrous or puberulent; stipules ovate, 3.1-3.5 mm long, acute, glabrous or rarely pubescent. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, the dichasia many flowered; pe-duncle terete, to 8 cm long, the floral axes to 2 cm long; bracts ovate, to 0.7 mm long, acute, glabrate to villosulose. Flowers sessile or on pedicels to 2 mm long; hypanthium 3-5 mm long, the calycine cup scarcely measurable, the lobes tri-angular to ovate, to 1.3 mm long, acute, glabrous to tomentose; corolla yellow, the tube infundibular, 2-3 cm long, constricted basally, glabrous, the lobes ovate, to 4 mm long, glabrous; stamens included, the anthers to 20 mm long, the con-nective produced at the apex, ovate, ca. 1 mm long, sagittate basally; style to 20 mm long, the stigmatic lobes linear, 5-8 mm long. Fruits ellipsoid, to 1.5 cm long, red to finally lustrous black at maturity; persistent ovarian disc conical and truncate; seeds to 1 mm long, delicately foveolate.
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