gray or reddish gray beneath, the margin slightly marginate; petioles to 1.5 cm long, wiry, glabrous; stipules connate but often splitting at maturity, narrowly triangular or ovate, 3 mm long or longer, each part terminating in 1 or 2 subulate awns about as long as the body. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, the flower mass emerging from an ovate aggregate of bracts, to 1 cm long; bracts to 1 cm long, often with 2-3 irregular lobes, glabrous or ciliate outside, with glands within. Flowers sessile, the hypanthium to 1 mm long, glabrous; calycine cup elongate, urceolate, to 4 mm long, scarious, glabrous, eglandular within, the teeth 5, erect, lanceolate, 2.0-3.5 mm long, ca. 1 mm wide at the base, acute; corolla white, the tube cylindrical, 7.5-9.5 mm long, to 1.2 mm wide, glabrous outside, glabrous within except densely villose at the mouth and point of filament attachment, the lobes 5, ovate oblong, 1.8-2.0 mm long, conspicuously galeate, villose basally within; stamens 5, the anthers oblong, 1.3 mm long, the filaments ca. 1.5 mm long, attached ca. 2 mm below the mouth; style included or slightly exserted, to 10.5 mm long, the stigmas small, the ovarian disc compressed rotund, 0.5 mm long. Fruits sessile, red, oblong rotund, 6-8 mm long, the pyrenes with 4 grooves on the dorsal face.
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Subshrubs 1.0-2.5 m tall, the branchlets terete, smooth, glabrous, usually drying dark. Leaves elliptic to elliptic or obovate rotund, 1.5-8.5 cm long, 0.8-3.5 cm wide, deltoid, often somewhat contracted at the apex, acuminate, the acumen short, ultimately acute to obtuse, attenuate acute at the base, the costa prominulous or subplane above, usually subplane beneath, the lateral veins 8-12, well spaced, moderately arcuate, plane above, prominulous beneath, delicately wavy or wrinkled when dry, papyraceous, glabrous, drying olive green above,
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