Twigs slightly compressed, soon terete, glabrous to very shortly spreading hairy.. Leaves alternate to subopposite; petiole 2–7 mm. long; lamina fleshy, slightly glaucous, ovate to elliptic-oblong or oblanceolate, 2–7(–9) cm. long, 1–4.5 cm. wide, bluntly pointed to rounded at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base, glabrous to shortly spreading hairy, with 1–2 pairs of strongly ascending lateral nerves from near the base.. Flowers clustered in the axils or more commonly at older nodes; pedicels 1–3 mm. long; bract cupular, 2–4 mm. long, subtruncate or with a short lobe, slightly keeled or gibbous, glabrous to papillose-hairy.. Calyx tubular, 4–6 mm. long, slightly lobed, papillose.. Corolla 3–3.5 cm. long, orange-yellow, sometimes green to red on tube and red on lobes, glabrous to papillose-hairy, opening by a unilateral split down to calyx, tube 1.1–1.4 cm. long, with a ring of 5 hairy appendages just below the V-split; lobes remaining erect, linear.. Stamen-filaments attached at the base of the lobes, coiling inwards and shedding anthers at anthesis, with a small tooth in front of the anther.. Berry red, ellipsoid to obovoid, 8–10 mm. long, 5–7 mm. in diameter, excluding the subpersistent calyx, glabrous to papillose-hairy; seed orange-yellow.
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