Small shrub to 1 m. or so; twigs stellate-puberulous, soon glabrescent.. Petiole 0.5–7 mm. long; lamina pale rather yellow green to full green, elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 3.5–10 cm. long, 1.5–6 cm. wide, bluntly pointed to subacute at the apex, basally cordate to rounded, soon glabrescent; lateral nerves 4–8 pairs.. Racemes axillary and at older nodes, 12–24-flowered; axis 2–4 cm. long, whitish puberulous; pedicel 2–4 mm. long; bract triangular-ovate, 0.8–1.5 mm. long.. Receptacle 1–1.5 mm. long.. Calyx very short.. Corolla 2.5–3.8 cm. long, apricot-yellow to orange with a dark spot at the base of each lobe, and sometimes a greenish basal swelling, thinly stellate puberulous; bud-tip clavate; tube 1.3–1.8 cm. long; basal swelling (2–)3–4 mm. long, narrow for 1.5–2 mm. above and then flared; lobes erect, ± cohering at the expanded tips.. Filaments inserted 5–6 mm. above the base of the lobes, the upper part thickened, coiled and generally breaking off; anthers 1.2–1.8 mm. long, the dorsal thecae relatively short, with a broad ± slightly bilobed connective-appendage.. Berry red turning black, ellipsoid, 5–8 mm. long, 4–5 mm. in diameter.
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