Glabrous, evergreen or semi-evergreen shrub or subshrub to c. 1.5 m tall, lacking black glands. Rhizomes 0. Shoots with 2 raised lines. Lvs sessile, 3.5-10 × 2.5-5-(6) cm, ovate or ovate-elliptic, often glaucescent below; base cordate and often amplexicaul; apex rounded and sometimes mucronulate. Cymes terminal, dense, 2-8-flowered. Sepals unequal, 8-12 mm long, ovate to elliptic, entire, with minute pellucid glands, enlarged at fruiting. Corolla 1.5-2.5 cm diam., flat; petals = or slightly > sepals, obovate, pale yellow. Stamens in 5 bundles, some > petals. Styles 3, < ovary. Fr. c. 1 cm diam., globose, indehiscent and ± fleshy, red but becoming black with dark reddish purple juice. Seeds 9-10 mm long, cylindric but sometimes curved, reticulate and angled on one side.
Home