Shrub or subshrub 20–75 cm. tall, the sometimes unbranched stems covered when young with dense short ± adpressed often ± brownish hairs.. Leaf-blades oblong or elliptic-oblong, 4–14 cm. long, 2–6 cm. wide, acute to shortly acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrous above, adpressed pubescent on the main nerves beneath and sometimes also between them, thin; domatia absent; nodules few to many, scattered throughout the lamina; petiole slender, 0.5–3 cm. long, shortly pubescent; stipules ovate-triangular, 6–8 mm. long, divided into 2 lobes at the apex 3–5 mm. long, pubescent and with hairy margins, deciduous.. Flowers ± heterostylous, 4-merous, in small sparsely branched inflorescences 1.5–2.5 cm. long; peduncle obsolete, up to ± 1 cm. long, pubescent; secondary branches 1–7 mm. long, pubescent; pedicels 0–1 mm. long; bracts minute.. Calyx-tube ovoid, ± 0.5–0.8 mm. long, glabrous or puberulous; limb cupuliform, 0.3–0.5 mm. long, glabrous, almost truncate.. Corolla white, glabrous or sparsely puberulous outside; tube 3–3.5 mm. long; lobes triangular, 1–1.5 mm. long, 0.8 mm. wide.. Stamens in long-styled flowers with filaments 0.2 mm. long, 0.5 mm. long in short-styled flowers.. Style in long-styled flowers ± 3.3 mm. long, 1.2 mm. long in short-styled flowers; stigma-lobes 0.5–1 mm. long.. Drupes red, depressed subglobose, ± 5 mm. diameter, glabrous, containing 2 pyrenes; pyrenes semiglobose, 4 mm. long and wide, 2.8 mm. thick, dorsally with 2–3 raised lines, ventrally concave.. Seeds semiglobose, the ventral face bearing 2 faint submedian fissures; albumen not ruminate.
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