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Inflorescences subumbellate, 1–2 cm across (excluding corollas); primary inflorescence branches very reduced; pedicels 1–3 mm long, pubescent; bracts 2–3 mm long, membranous, pubescent outside, with a few silky hairs inside; bracteoles obscure.
Calyx tube 0.8–1 mm long, glabrescent to pubescent; limb-tube 0.5–1 mm long, glabrous to glabrescent; lobes 3–6.5 mm long, linear-triangular, glabrescent to pubescent.
Inflorescence-supporting branches 1.5–7 cm long, slender, 0.7–1 mm wide, (1)2 pairs of leaves present below inflorescence, often with a lower, usually leafless, node.
Corolla tube 7–14 mm long, 9–12 mm wide at the top, glabrous outside, not bearded at the throat; lobes 3.5–4.5 × 1.5–2 mm, obtuse to acuminate, occasionally rounded.
Fruit described as black but drying greyish or buff, 5–6 mm in diameter, crowned by persistent calyx limb.
Small shrub 0.4–2.5 m tall; very young stems pubescent, later covered with buff to grey bark, slender.
Well formed seeds not known.
