Stems well branched, up to 80 cm. long; branchlets 1–3 mm. diameter, brown to purple-brown.. Leaves opposite or subopposite; petiole 5–10 mm. long; lamina thinly textured, dark green at maturity, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, 5–10 cm. long, 2–5 cm. wide, slightly acuminate at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base, with 6–10 pairs of lateral nerves.. Racemes terminal and axillary, 4–8 cm. long, mostly 30–50-flowered; pedicel 2–3 mm. long; bract ovate-triangular, 1 mm. long, umbonate, ciliolate.. Receptacle narrowly obconic, 1.5 mm. long, covered in small warts.. Calyx 0.5–0.8 mm. long, ciliolate.. Corolla in bud 4-angular in lower quarter, slightly shouldered to tapering upper part; petals yellow to orange-yellow, linear, 6–7 mm. long, thickened and papillate below filament-insertion, reflexed above.. Stamen-filament arising from nectariferous callus, 2–3 mm. long; anthers locellate, 1.5–3 mm. long.. Style 5–7 mm. long.. Berry obovoid-ellipsoid, 5–6 mm. long, 3.5–4 mm. in diameter, verruculose, becoming smooth and red at maturity; seed greenish-yellow, translucent at the base.
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