Shrub, mostly scrambling or scandent to 3.5 m tall; twigs scurfy to cobwebby-pubescent with mostly sessile, slender-radiate stellate hairs, white. Leaves ovate or elliptic, sometimes broadly so, to 18 cm long, short-acuminate apically, basally obtuse or rounded, sometimes slightly oblique or dimidiate, glabrescent on the lamina, the veins puberulent above, ca. 5 on each side of the midvein; petioles 2-3 cm long; minor leaves mostly wanting. Inflorescence a several-flowered fascicle on a short, peduncle-like base at a node of the stem; pedicels filiform, 10 mm long, glabrate, becoming stouter and 15 mm long in fruit. Flowers with the calyx ca. 2 mm deep with a few scattered, persistent stellae, the teeth slender, 3 mm long; corolla 13 mm long, glabrous near-the. base, pubescent on the upper portion with sessile stellae; stamens unequal, 4 filaments ca. 1 mm long, the fifth 4 mm long, the anthers 4 mm long, the longer stamen with a slightly larger anther, slender and elongate; ovary ellipsoid, glabrous, 2.5 mm long. Fruit ?globose, red, 15-20 mm across, the calyx somewhat accrescent, the cup be-coming woody and the teeth ultimately at least partially reflexed and stouter but not much longer.
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