Plants evergreen, 0.5-1 m. Stems erect or arched (no short shoots), with white, sessile, resinous glands; spines at nodes absent; prickles on internodes absent. Leaves: petiole 0.3-1 cm, strigillose and with yellow or white, sessile glands; blade ovate to obovate, unlobed, 2-4 cm, base truncate, margins shallowly toothed, sometimes undulate, apex rounded, surfaces with yellow, sessile glands abaxially, glabrous adaxially. Inflorescences erect, 6-15-flowered racemes, 1.5-5 cm, axis glandular, flowers evenly spaced. Pedicels jointed, 2-5 mm, glandular; bracts narrowly lanceolate, 2-3.5 mm, glandular. Flowers: hypanthium reddish, turbinate, 2-5 mm, glabrous, sessile-glandular; sepals not overlapping, spreading, reddish, triangular to broadly deltate-ovate, 2-3 mm; petals widely separated, erect, reddish brown, oblong to oblong-obovate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 2 mm; nectary disc prominent, reddish to reddish brown, 5-angled, completely covering top of ovary; stamens nearly as long as petals; filaments linear, 2 mm, glabrous; anthers white, oval, 0.1 mm, apex with small cuplike depression; ovary sparsely sessile-glandular; styles connate 1/2 their lengths, 1 mm, glabrous. Berries palatable, red, globose, 5-6 mm, glabrous. 2n = 16.
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An evergreen shrub. It grows 1.5 m high and spreads 1.5 m wide. The stems are smooth. The stems droop and develop roots. The leaves have a strong aroma. The flowers are pink and erect. The fruit are red.
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