Plants 3–10 dm, roughly pubescent. Stems sparingly branched. Leaves 3–9(–14) × 1.5–5 cm; blade ovate to lanceolate, rounded to obliquely subcordate, adaxial surface glabrate or sparsely pubescent, abaxial surface scabrous or puberulent especially on veins, margins minutely pubescent to scabrous, hairs pointed sharply forward, apex long-acuminate to acute. Flowers 2–3(–4); perianth turbinate, narrowed basally; tepals spreading, dull or creamy white to greenish white, oblanceolate, 8–18 mm, apex short-acuminate; stamens included or exserted, 8–15 mm; filaments filiform, 6–15 mm; anthers 3–5 mm, glabrous or minutely sharp-bristled; ovary ellipsoid, glabrous or somewhat pubescent, ovules 2 per locule, pendulous; styles glabrous or basal 1/2 pubescent; stigma not lobed or rarely weakly 3-lobed. Berries bright red, 4 (–6)-seeded, ovoid to obovoid, beaked with persistent style bases, 8–16 mm. Seeds 5–6 mm. 2n = 18.
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