Shrubs to subshrubs ca. 1 m tall; young branchlets with erect, simple hairs, mostly glabrescent, sometimes with persistent, scattered branched hairs. Leaves unequal paired; petiole 0.5-2 cm; blade of major leaf lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, 5-9 × 3-4 cm, with sparse many-celled hairs adaxially, base decurrent, apex acute or acuminate; blade of minor leaf ovate, 2-4 × 1-1.5 cm. Inflorescences 1-3-flowered fascicles in leaf axils. Pedicel 1-1.5 cm. Calyx cup-shaped to campanulate, 6-7 mm; teeth 10, subulate, slightly unequal, 4-4.5 mm. Corolla white, stellate, ca. 1 cm; lobes lanceolate, 8-11 × 2-3 mm, with green basal spots, ciliate. Filaments ca. 0.3 mm; anthers oblong, 3-3.5 mm. Style 8-10 mm. Fruiting pedicel 5-12 mm, pubescent with many-celled hairs. Fruiting calyx teeth 5-5.5 mm. Berry red, subglobose, 0.8-1 cm in diam. Seeds deltate-reniform, ca. 1.2 mm. Fl. Jun-Sep, fr. Sep-Dec.
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