Shrubs scandent, ca. 0.5 m, usually rusty villous. Branchlets terete. Leaves opposite, simple; petiole 1-4(-6) mm; leaf blade ovate or broadly ovate, 1-3.5 × 1-2.5 cm, leathery, base truncate or rounded, rarely subcordate, apex obtuse or acute, mucronulate; primary veins 3 or 4 on each side of midrib, obscure but basal pair usually obvious. Flowers solitary in leaf axils or 2-4 in terminal fascicles; bractlets linear, ca. 2 mm. Pedicel 2-4 mm. Calyx lobes linear, 2-4 mm. Corolla white; tube 1.7-2.2 cm; lobes 5 or 6, lanceolate, 0.8-1.3 cm. Berry purple-black, subglobose or ellipsoid, 0.7-1.3 × 0.6-1.2 cm. Fl. May-Sep, fr. Oct-Jan.
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