Evergreen shrub 1.2–3.4(–4.7) m. tall; young branches glabrous or rarely pubescent; older branches with buff to fawn bark.. Leaf-blades elliptic to obovate, 3.5–12(–15) cm. long, 1.5–5.3(–7) cm. wide, apex acute, sometimes with a short acumen or sometimes rounded, base cuneate, subcoriaceous, ± shiny above, glabrous or rarely pubescent beneath; bacterial nodules dot-like scattered, numerous or few; petioles 0.3–2 cm. long, glabrous or pubescent; stipule-limbs subtruncate to broadly ovate, 2–7 mm. long, usually with the marginal area buff and slightly corky; arista up to 3 mm. long.. Corymbs terminal on leafy lateral branches 3–15 cm. long, subumbellate, ± compact, 2–4 cm. across; primary inflorescence branches 2–5.8(–10) mm. long, glabrous or rarely sparsely pubescent; secondary branches present or absent; pedicels 2–9 mm. long, glabrous or sparsely pubescent; bracts 3–7 mm. long, papery.. Calyx-tube ? whitish when fresh (usually drying blackish in contrast to the lobes and pedicel), 1–1.25 mm. long, glabrous or rarely pubescent; limb-tube 0.75–1 mm. long; lobes linear to lanceolate or narrowly triangular, 3.5–12 mm. long, 0.5–1 (–1.75) mm. wide, acute, glabrous, ciliate or rarely pubescent Corolla-tube 1–2.2 cm. long, 1.5–2 mm. wide at top, glabrous outside, not bearded at throat; lobes oblong-elliptic, 5–8 mm. long, 1.75–2.5 mm. wide, acuminate.. Fruit greenish black, 0.8–1.1 cm. in diameter, shiny; calyx-limb persistent.. Seed greyish black, 5 mm. wide, slightly rugulose on convex face.
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