Erect sparingly branched subglabrous suffruticose herbs or shrubs to 3 m. high. Leaves glabrous to minutely strigillose on the veins below, broadly lanceolate to rhombic-ovate, often falcate, apically attenuate, basally acute to subrounded, 3-15 cm. long, 1-6 cm. broad; petioles 5-20 mm. long. Inflorescences of mostly terminal corymbose racemes, the rhachises usually glandular. Flowers perfect, on pedicels 1-10 mm. long; bracts and bracteoles subequal, ovate to orbicular, carinate, 0.5-1 mm. long; sepals 5, subequal, ovate, concave, glabrate or scurfy, rounded to subacute, ultimately spreading, 2-4 mm. long, 1-2 mm. broad, with 7-13 (-17) ribs; stamens 5-8; filaments 2-3 mm. long; filament tube 1-2 mm. long; anthers oblong; ovary globose; style 1, about 0.5 mm. long; stigmata mostly 3-4, longer than the style, ultimately reflexed. Fruit an irregularly dehiscent capsule exceeding the sepals, 4-7 mm. long, 3-6 mm. broad; seeds cochleate-orbiculate, black, lustrous, reticulate, 1.5-2.2 mm. long, on filiform or flattened funicles becoming 1-3 mm. long.
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