An upright, straggling or creeping shrub 0.4–3(–4.5) m. tall; young branches pubescent or less often glabrous; older branches with red-brown, thin readily peeling bark.. Leaves mostly confined to the apices of the branches; blades often drying bronze or bronze-grey above, narrowly oblanceolate to obovate, 3–13.5(–22) cm. long, 1.3–4.6(–8) cm. wide, apex acute to shortly acuminate, base cuneate to narrowly cuneate, scabrid, glabrescent or sometimes glabrous above, scabrid to pubescent or glabrous beneath; bacterial nodules dot-like or elliptic, mostly occurring on the midrib and lateral nerves but with a few scattered; petiole 0–2(–3) cm. long, pubescent or less often glabrous; stipules only shortly connate, triangular to ovate and gradually caudate, up to 1.4 cm. long, the caudate tip often equalling the limb, pubescent or less often glabrous outside, glabrous within.. Corymbs terminal on lateral branches 1.8–15.5 cm. long bearing 2–3 pairs of leaves near the apex, capitate, 1–2 cm. across; inflorescence-branches absent; pedicels very reduced or up to 1 mm. long; bracts and bracteoles ± round, 0.3–1.5 cm. long with or without a caudate tip up to 0.5 cm. long, pubescent outside or less often glabrous, moderately to densely covered with white silky hairs inside, usually sheathing the base of the inflorescence.. Calyx-tube ± 0.75 mm. long, glabrous or sparsely hairy; limb-tube up to 1 mm. long; lobes filiform or sometimes linear (in fruiting stage), 0.35–1.2 cm. long, sparsely ciliate to pubescent.. Corolla-tube 1–2 cm. long, 0.75–1.5 mm. wide at top, glabrous or sparsely hairy towards top outside, not bearded at throat; lobes oblong-elliptic, 3–5.5 mm. long, 1–2 mm. wide, apex shortly acuminate, sometimes pubescent outside.. Fruit greyish to black, 5.5–7 mm. in diameter, shiny; calyx-limb persistent; fruiting pedicels sometimes up to 3 mm. long.. Seeds blackish, 5–6 mm. wide.
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