Shrubs or small trees, 4-7 m tall, the branchlets terete to angular, glabrous or puberulent, these usually forming numerous short branchlets. Leaves mostly ternately disposed, ovate, trapeziform oblong or ovate rotund, 2.0-8.5 cm long, 1.0-3.5 cm wide, attenuate at the apex, acuminate, the acumen triangular, to 1 cm long, acute, attenuate acute to cuneate at the base, the costa prominulous or grooved above, the lateral veins (3-)4-5, arcuate, membranous to subcharta-ceous, glabrate above, usually minutely papillate and with numerous raphides, sparsely short ciliate beneath, often only on the costa and the veins, ciliolate; petioles slender, wiry, scarcely measurable or to 3 cm long, pubescent; stipules deciduous. Inflorescences with dichasia 2-5(-9)-flowered, terminal on short lat-eral branches; peduncles 1.0-2.5 cm long, the floral axes to 5 cm long, each with up to 4 flowers, the flowers secund, those in the axils of dichasia sessile or subsessile, the others on pedicels. Flowers with the hypanthium oblong, to 4.5 mm long, glabrous, the raphides numerous; calycine cup obsolete, the lobes ovate, to 1.2 mm long, acute; corolla orange red to red, glabrous, the tube cylin-drical to 2 cm long, ca. 0.3 cm wide, the lobes ovate, ca. 1.5 mm long or longer, pubescent outside; anthers linear, 8-10 mm long, the terminal appendage ca. 0.5 mm long. Fruits suborbicular, about twice as long as wide at maturity, the per-sistent ovarian disc rostrate; seeds to 1.2 mm long.
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