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Leaf blades 2–14 x 0.5–5.8 cm., narrowly elliptic to elliptic or sometimes ovate or obovate to oblanceolate, rounded to acute or rarely acuminate at the apex, narrowly to rather broadly cuneate at the base, usually markedly discolorous, the undersurface pale or quite whitish, glabrous or finely puberulous to pubescent above, glabrous or with nerves or less often whole surface pubescent beneath, the surfaces often with a minute honeycomb reticulation in the dry state; domatia absent; nodules absent or almost obsolete or rarely dispersed in the lamina; petiole 0.1–1 cm. long, glabrous or shortly pubescent; stipules prominently bilobed, the base 2.5–5 mm. long, ovate, the lobes 1.5–4 mm. long, acuminate, the base somewhat persistent.
Flowers heterostylous, 5-merous, in few-many-flowered condensed subumbelliform cymes 1–1.5 cm. in diam., rarely inflorescence branched with a lower whorl of 3 additional cymes; peduncles 0.5–6.5 cm. long, glabrous or puberulous; pedicels 1–5(7) mm. long, ± glabrous; bracts obsolete.
Drupes green turning yellow, orange and finally becoming bright red, with 2 pyrenes, 5–6 mm. in diam., subglobose, glabrous, crowned with the persistent calyx limb; pyrenes pale, 4.2 x 3.6 x 2 mm., semi-ellipsoid, ± 6-ribbed dorsally, ventrally flat, all surfaces rhaphide-packed.
Subshrub, with erect shoots (2)5–30 cm. tall (rarely taller in intermediates) from ± horizontal underground stems, or shrub 1–5 m. tall; stems shortly densely pubescent, glabrescent or glabrous, older ones longitudinally ridged.
Calyx 1 mm. long, turbinate, glabrous or slightly pubescent; limb 1–2 mm long, cupuliform, glabrous or ± pubescent, the lobes unequal, usually short, subtriangular or ovate, up to 0.3 mm. long or practically obsolete.
Corolla white, glabrous outside; tube (2.5)5–6.5 mm long; lobes (2.5)3–5 x ± 1 mm. oblong-lanceolate, usually slightly appendaged at the apex.
Seeds dark red, 3.5 x 3.5 x 2 mm., semi-ellipsoid or semi-globose, with a V-shaped median fissure on the ventral face; albumen not ruminate.
Style 3–4.5 mm. long in short-styled flowers, 6–7(10) mm. long in long-styled flowers; stigma lobes 0.5–1.5 mm. long.
Stamens with filaments 2.5–3 mm. long in short-styled flowers, 0.2 mm. long in long-styled flowers.
