Shrubs to 5 m tall, usually branching freely, the branchlets terete, slender, smooth, glabrous, the terminal nodes usually proximate. Leaves oblong, occa-sionally elliptic or obovate elliptic, 6-16 cm long, 2-8 cm wide, deltoid or sub-obtuse at the apex, rarely acute, acuminate, the acumen to 1.5 cm long, often falcate, ultimately obtuse, basally cuneate, obtuse or attenuate acute, occasion-ally cordate, rarely truncate, the costa prominulous above, often distinctly grooved, prominent beneath and usually with an evident pore in the axils of the secondary veins, the lateral veins 5-10, arcuate and forming an undulate, sub-marginal vein to 1 cm from the margin, stiffly chartaceous, concolorous, glabrous above, glabrous to puberulent beneath;-petioles absent or to 0.5(-0.9) cm long, slender, to 0.13 cm wide, glabrous or minutely puberulent; stipules deciduous, ovate oblong, to 8 mm long, obtuse or acute, rubescent outside, glabrous, setose within. Inflorescences terminal, solitary, paniculate, to 8 cm long, usually 2 times longer than wide, puberulent or glabrous; peduncles 1.5-6.0 cm long, usually terminating in 5 radially disposed branches or the rachis extended and the branch-es in 2 well-spaced pairs, the cymules terminal. Flowers pedicellate, the pedicels to 2 mm long, the hypanthium short, the calycine cup ca. 1 mm long, pubescent, petaloid, eglandular or with 5 well-spaced glands within, glabrous within, the teeth 5, 1.0-2.5 mm long, sometimes unequal, acute; corolla white or yellow, the tube cylindrical, 2-4 mm long, puberulent to glabrate outside, with soft, white, elongate hairs within near the point of filament attachment, the lobes 5, oblong, petaloid, venose, about 1/2 the length of the tube, obtuse or acute; stamens 5, exserted, the anthers narrowly oblong, ca. 1 mm long, the filaments slender, to 2 mm long, attached near the mouth; ovarian disc pulvinate, ca. 0.3 mm long, the style 1.5-2.0(-7.0) mm long (fide Croat), the stigmas 2, digitiform, ca. 1 mm long, papillose. Fruits subglobose, 4-5 mm in diam., minutely puberulent, dis-tinctly furrowed, the calyx often persistent, to 2 mm long.
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