Glabrous, dense, evergreen shrub, to 2 m tall, lacking black glands. Rhizomes 0. Shoots 2-lined. Lvs sessile, 3.5-7.5 × 1.5-4 cm, ovate or ovate-oblong; glands minute and pellucid; base rounded on vegetative shoots, cordate and somewhat amplexicaul on flowering shoots; apex obtuse to rounded. Cymes terminal, up to 12-flowered. Sepals ± unequal, 4-9 mm long, ovate-oblong, with minute pellucid glands, entire, enlarged at fruiting; apex ± acute. Corolla 2.5-3.7 cm diam.; petals ovate, medium yellow, much > sepals. Stamens in 5 bundles, variable in length with longest > petals. Styles 3, 1-1.5 cm long, much > ovary. Capsule 7-13 mm long, ovoid or ellipsoid-ovoid, ± fleshy, remaining shining red. Seeds c. 1 mm long, probably ± cylindric but mature seed not seen.
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