Scrambling shrub or small tree, 1–6 m. long or tall; young shoots frequently ± zigzag, at first densely covered with short spreading ferruginous hairs, later glabrescent, ridged, blackish-purple and lenticellate.. Leaf-blades oblanceolate, oblong, obovate or oblong-elliptic, 2–10.5 cm. long, (0.9–)1.5–4.3(–5) cm. wide, slightly narrowed to an obtuse, rounded or somewhat emarginate apex, rounded to subcordate at the base, thin or slightly coriaceous, densely ferruginous pilose all over when very young, soon glabrous above, glaucous and sparsely adpressed pubescent beneath, often with denser more spreading indumentum on the yellowish midrib; venation closely reticulate and finely raised on both surfaces; petiole 0.2–1.2 cm. long, ferruginous pubescent.. Flowers hermaphrodite, ± leaf-opposed; pedicels 0.9–2.3 cm. long, ferruginous pubescent; bracteole small, linear-lanceolate, situated near the base of the pedicel, 1–2 mm. long, 0.7–1 mm. wide, densely ferruginous pubescent.. Sepals broadly ovate or reniform, somewhat united at the base, 1.5–3(–4) mm. long, 2(–4) mm. wide, ferruginous pubescent.. Petals yellow; outer rounded or rounded-ovate, (4–)8–9 mm. long and wide, ferruginous pubescent outside, glabrous inside save around upper margin; inner obovate or round but narrowed at the base, (2.5–)4–5.5(–7) mm. long, (2–)5 mm. wide, incurved at the apex, ferruginous puberulous outside, glabrous insidesave at the apex.. Stamens 14–24, cuneiform, 1–1.5 mm. long; filaments about as long as squarish anthers; connective truncate.. Carpels 10–12(–26); ovary ellipsoid, ± 1 mm. long, (1–)3–4(–5)-ovuled, glabrous; style ± 0.7–1 mm. long, ± angular.. Fruiting pedicels 1–1.5 cm. long; monocarps greenish and glaucous at first, later orange-red, 2–5(–12), of 1–3(–5) articles, distinctly constricted between them, each ellipsoid, (0.5–)0.7–1.2 cm. long, 4–6 mm. wide, the apical one rounded, glabrous, finely rugose; stipes 2–5 mm. long.. Seeds yellowish, ellipsoid, (0.4–)0.85–1.1 cm. long, (3–)5–6 mm. wide, shining.
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