Shrubs 1-4 m tall. Branchlets sparsely lenticellate, dusty yellow tomentose when young, becoming yellow-brown and glabrous. Leaves pairs unequal; petiole 4-12 mm, pubescent, glandular; leaf blade ovate-lanceolate to ovate, 4-8 X 2-4 cm, glandular, abaxially yellow-green and subglabrous, adaxially dark green and minutely hirsute especially on veins, base cuneate to subrounded, margin deeply and sharply serrate, apeX acuminate to caudate-acuminate; veins 3 or 4 pairs, 3-veined at base. Inflorescences subsessile, 1.5-2.5 cm across. Calyx 5-8 mm, tube ca. 1.5 mm, deeply 5-dentate, minutely hirsute and yellow glandular. Corolla rose red, slightly longer than calyx, 2-lipped, outside puberulent and glandular, inside villous. Stamens nearly as long as corolla. Ovary with a few hairs, glandular. Fruit black, ovate-globose, ca. 4 mm in diam. Fl. and fr. summer-autumn.
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