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Corolla in bud narrowed one-third to halfway up, slightly quadrangular below, a little tapered above; petals purple-red in Mozambique, elsewhere sometimes yellow to orange-red, sometimes with green, 4–9 mm long, linear-lanceolate, slightly thickened, folded and medially grooved below filament insertion.
Leaves mostly opposite or subopposite, sometimes one alternating with pairs; petiole (0.5)0.8–2.5 cm long, glandular-puberulous in the groove; lamina slightly fleshy, 3–10 × 1.5–7 cm, usually ovate to elliptic, sometimes lanceolate or subcircular, blunt or pointed, with c. 6–12 pairs of lateral nerves.
Racemes terminal, 5–10(15) cm long, mostly subdensely 40–100-flowered, sometimes with scurfy indumentum; pedicel 3–5(8 in fruit) mm long; bract 1–1.5 mm long, broadly ovate.
Stems laxly branched, to 0.6 m or so; branchlets thickening to 3–5 mm diameter, greenish turning reddish-brown to grey.
Anthers 2–4 mm long, 1–6 times as long as filament.
Berry turning red then black, 5 mm across, globose.
Receptacle 1–2 mm long.
Style 3–5 mm long.
Calyx subentire.
