Plant glabrous; twigs soon terete.. Leaves alternate and clustered on short shoots; petiole 0–1 mm. long; lamina coriaceous, glaucous, elliptic-oblong to obovate, 1–5 cm. long, 0.3–3 cm. wide, bluntly pointed to rounded at the apex, with a pair of strongly ascending lateral nerves from a little above the base.. Flowers 1–4 in subsessile umbels terminal on short shoots usually after the primary leaves have fallen; peduncle to 0.5 mm. long; pedicels 1 mm. long; bract cupular, with a short concave lobe, keeled, 2–3.5 mm. long, ± jagged or ciliolate.. Receptacle 1–1.5 mm. long.. Calyx tubular, 5–6 mm. long, shortly lobed.. Corolla 2.9–3.5 cm. long, yellow, greenish yellow or rarely red and yellow, opening by a unilateral split; tube 1–1.5 cm. long, with 5 small hairy flaps forming a ring inside; lobes slightly broadened upwards, reflexed from a little above the base after anthesis.. Filaments attached at the base of the lobes, incurved and shedding anthers at anthesis, with a small tooth in front of the anther.. Berry red, obovoid, 7 mm. long, 4 mm. in diameter.
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