Stems spreading and pendent, up to 1 m. or so; branchlets 1–3 mm. diameter, reddish to purple-brown.. Leaves opposite, subopposite or rarely ternate; petiole 4–12 mm. long; lamina chartaceous, narrowly elliptic-oblong to elliptic, ovate or oblong-oblanceolate, 6–10(–14) cm. long, 1–4 cm. wide, usually pointed, often slightly acuminate at the apex, with 6–10(–12) pairs of fine lateral nerves.. Racemes terminal and in many axils, 2–10(–15) cm. long, 20–50-flowered; pedicel 1–5 mm. long; bract ovate-triangular, sometimes slightly gibbous, 0.7–1.5 mm. long, glandular-ciliolate.. Receptacle 1–3 mm. long.. Calyx entire to slightly toothed, 0.3–1 mm. long, glandular-ciliolate.. Corolla in bud 4-angular in lower part, ± shouldered to the tapered upper part; petals white to pinkish, linear, (4–)8–18(–24) mm. long, thickened, grooved and sometimes papillate below filament-insertion.. Stamen-filament arising from behind a flap-like petal-appendage; anthers locellate, 5–9 mm. long.. Style 3–7 mm. long.. Berry tinged red, ellipsoid, 5–6 mm. long, generally smooth, but in Gabon often with fine lines of longitudinal pimples.. Fig. 1/1–5 (p. 6).
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A very variable species, particularly in size of flowers and leaves, the position of the leaves, the shape of the base of the perianth-segments and of the bracts
On Coffea, Citrus, Ficus, Hymenocardia ulmoides and Thecacoris manniana.
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