Herb or woody subshrub to 75 cm tall; stems flexuous, strigose with spreading, coarse, stramineous simple hairs, 1-3 mm long. Leaves lanceolate to elliptical, conspicuously oblique, mostly 12-18 cm long, apically acuminate, basally narrowed and rounded, strigose pubescent, especially along the veins beneath, veins 10-15 on each side of the midvein, parallel and arching slightly to the margins; petioles short, to ca. 10 mm long; minor leaves rotund, to 20 mm long, sparingly pubescent on the upper surface. Inflorescences axillary, solitary or a fascicle of 2-3 flowers; pedicels 15 mm long, slender, strigose. Flowers small, calyx strigose, 1-2 mm long plus the 10 filiform, 3 mm long teeth, enlarging in fruit; corolla (Honduras, Yuncker 4625, MO) 5 mm long, yellowish white; stamens equal, the anthers with a fine point, 4 mm long; the androecium and gynoecium not seen. Fruit red, juicy, 10 mm long, the calyx becoming 4 mm long and the filiform teeth 4-5 mm long.
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