Spreading, erect or subscandent herb or soft shrub, 0.6-1.2 m tall. Leaves petiolate, opposite or sometimes ternate; blade grey-green, ovate-lanceolate to ovate-elliptic, 35-65(-75) x 18-25 mm, sparingly pubescent to fairly densely appressed tomentose, apex acute, base cuneate, margin crenate-dentate; petiole 3-8 mm long. Inflorescence consisting of rather lax panicles or racemes; verticils 2-4-flowered, 3-5 mm apart; bracts minute, linear-lanceolate, 1.5-2 mm long; pedicels slender, 2.5-4 mm long, articulate at the top. Calyx subequally 5-toothed, 4-4.5 mm long at flowering; teeth narrow, 1-1.5 mm long; tube cylindric, becoming globose and fleshy in fruit. Corolla bilabiate, white or cream, 6-7 mm long; tube straight, subcylindric; upper lip short, erect, 1 mm long, 3-lobed; lower lip patent, 1.5 mm long. Stamens didynamous, only the lower fertile, declinate, attached near the throat, exserted by 3-5 mm; the upper pair minute, attached in the throat, included. Disc produced on one or two sides, one lobe often exceeding the overy. Style exserted, shortly 2-lobed. Fruit subglobose, berry-like, 4-5 mm in diam., orange-coloured, usually enclosing 2 or 3 nutlets; nutlets ellipsoid-orbicular, compressed, 2 x 1.5 mm.
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A herb or shrub. It is much branched and can be creeping. It is slightly woody. It grows 3.5 m tall. It has an aroma. The leave are opposite and narrow oval. They are 5 cm long by 3 cm wide. They have slight teeth along the edge. The flowers are yellowish-green and in groups at the ends of branches. The flowers are 3 mm long. The fruit are small and orange-yellow. They are 6 mm across. It contains 2-3 nutlets. The fruit are edible.
An erect or half-climbing, odorous shrub, up to 10 or 15 ft. high
Small greenish-cream flowers in copious panicles
Orange-yellow succulent fruits 1/4 in. across.
A tropical plant. It grows in secondary and forest savannah in West Africa. It grows in hot arid places with a marked dry season. It grows in rocky soils. It can tolerate shade. In Kenya it grows from sea level to 2,000 m altitude. It is areas with a rainfall of 650-1,000 mm per year. It can grow in arid places.
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Secondary, fringing and savannah forest, on river-banks and on old cultivation sites. Tropical and subtropical open woodland. Open Brachystegia woodland and grassland at elevations from 700-1,540 metres in Zimbabwe.
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