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Leaves 3–17 × 1–9 cm, elliptic, oblong-elliptic or ± ovate, acute at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base, subcoriaceous, glabrous; petiole (2)6–15 mm long; stipules 5–10 mm long, narrowly triangular, produced into a long acumen.
Corolla waxy-white, the lobes often pink-tinged; tube 12–17 mm long, c. 10 mm wide at the throat, funnel-shaped with a narrow cylindrical base, the lobes 0.7–1.3 × 5–7 mm.
Small shrub or less often a tree, or rhozomatous subshrub in the Flara Zambesiaca area, 0.3–1.8(8) m tall; young stems mostly straw-coloured, glabrous.
Calyx tube 2.5 mm long, ± oblong; limb-tube pale, 1–2.5 mm long, the lobes 3–4 × 0.3 mm, narrowly triangular, minutely erose to distinctly ciliate.
Inflorescences axillary at alternate successive axils, up to 8-flowered; bracts/bracteoles resembling the stipules but smaller.
Fruit bright orange when ripe, up to 1.5 × 1.3–1.5 cm, broadly ellipsoid to globose; stalk up to 8 mm long.
Seeds brown, 5 × 5 × 2 mm, compressed, ± round, reticulate-rugose.
Pollen presenter narrowly clavate, bilobed at the apex.
Flowers strongly scented.
Style 0.8–2 cm long.
Anthers 5 mm long.
