Shrubs or small trees, to 6 m tall, the branchlets angular to tetragonal, gla-brous, the nodes well spaced. Leaves rarely ternate at the tips of the branchlets, ovate to ovate elliptic, occasionally puberulent; petioles 1.0-5.5 cm long; stipules deltoid, 4-7 mm long, to 2 mm wide at the base, glabrate. Inflorescences terminal, of compound dichasia, often appearing cymose, the floral clusters numerous and many flowered; peduncle to 3 cm long. Flowers with the calycine cup to 2.5 mm long, the lobes deltoid, ca. 0.6 mm long or shorter, puberulent marginally; corolla yellow, the tube 7.5-12.0 mm long, glabrous except often minutely puberulent at the base, the lobes to 1.5 mm long, about as broad at the base; anthers narrowly oblong, 6-8 mm long, the connective produced apically as an ovate or deltoid appendage, ca. 1 mm long, falcate and ultimately acuminate, basally sagittate. Fruits oblong, to 1 cm long or longer; persistent ovarian disc ca. 1 mm long.
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