Shrub, liane or small tree, 1.5–7.5 m. tall, with smooth or slightly rough light grey or buff bark; young branchlets slender, pale brown, adpressed or rarely spreading pubescent at first, later glabrous, wrinkled and lenticellate.. Leaf-blades narrowly oblong to elliptic or oblanceolate, (1–)5–10.5 cm. long, 0.5–3(–3.5) cm. wide, obtuse to rounded or emarginate (rarely acute) at the apex, cuneate, rounded or slightly cordate at the base, thin, bright green and glabrescent above, glaucous and adpressed pubescent or puberulous beneath; very young leaves are pilose on both sides; venation reticulate but obscure; sometimes 2 basal glands present; petiole 2–5 mm. long, adpressed pubescentor glabrous.. Flowers hermaphrodite, solitary or in 2–4-flowered extra-axillary cymes or fascicles; peduncles short; pedicels 0.5–2(–3) cm. long, slender, adpressed pubescent; bracteole small, situated near the base of the pedicel, ovate-triangular, 0.5–2 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, adpressed pubescent.. Sepals free or ± joined at the base, ovate-triangular, 1–2 mm. long, 1.5–2 mm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the apex.. Petals yellow, thick and brittle, outer broadly ovate, 4–6 mm. long, 4–6 mm. wide, rounded to apiculate, with adpressed silvery or ferruginous hairs outside, puberulous inside save near the base; inner shorter and narrower, oblong to oblanceolate, 4.5–5 mm. long, 2–2.5 mm. wide, obtuse or acute, puberulous all over save at base within.. Stamens 12–18, squarish, 1 mm. long, glabrous; filaments about equalling the anthers; connective not prolonged.. Carpels (6–)9–20; ovary ovoid-ellipsoid, 1.2 mm. long, densely adpressed pilose, 1–2-ovuled; style ± 1 mm. long, equalling the ovary, cylindric, entire or bifid.. Fruiting pedicels 1.3–3 cm. long; monocarps red or orange, 2–13, cylindric, of 1–2 articles, each ovoid or cylindrical, 5–9 mm. long, 5–6 mm. wide, apiculate, glabrescent, finely rugose; stipes 3–8 mm. long.. Seeds yellow-brown, ellipsoid, 4–8 mm. long, 5–6 mm. wide.. Fig. 22/3, p. 91.
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A creeping shrub or small tree. It grows 1.5-7.5 m tall. The young branches are slender and pale brown. They can be hairy at first. The leaves are narrowly oval and 5-10 cm long by 1-3 cm wide. They can be rounded or heart shaped at the base. The flowers can occur singly or in groups of 2-4.
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