Shrub 1–2.4 m. tall, much branched; stems glabrous to sparsely to ± densely pubescent above with spreading ferruginous hairs, the older stems dark purplish grey, ridged and lenticellate, glabrescent; branches opposite or ternate.. Leaf-blades oblong-elliptic, 2–10.5 cm. long, 0.8–4 cm. wide, acuminate at the apex, the actual acumen mostly narrowly rounded at the tip, broadly cuneate to rounded at the base, discolorous, shortly pubescent above, more densely hairy beneath, particularly on the venation with longer, softer, grey or ferruginous hairs, usually ± velvety; petiole 2–7 mm. long, densely pubesent; stipules ovate, 3–5 mm. long, ± connate, densely ferruginous pubescent outside, long pilose inside, with slightly subapical subulate appendage 3–6 mm. long, ± persistent.. Flowers in several-flowered dense fascicles ± forming verticils at the nodes; peduncles obsolete; pedicels 1–2(–3) mm. long.. Calyx pubescent or ± glabrous; tube campanulate, 1.2 mm. long; limb brown, glabrous, ± scarious, ± 1 mm. long, divided into triangular acuminate teeth 0.5 mm. long.. Buds obovoid, obtuse or ± acuminate, glabrous.. Corolla white, cream, yellow or greenish; tube 2.5–3.5 mm. long, glabrous inside; lobes ovate, 2–3.5 mm. long, 1–1.2 mm. wide, acute but without appendages.. Ovary 2-locular; style ± 3.5 mm. long, thickened below; stigmatic club ellipsoid, 1.2 mm. long, sulcate beneath, apically bilobed.. Fruits compressed-subglobose, 8 mm. long, 9–10 mm. wide (10 × 12 in life), 4 mm. thick, with (1–)2 pyrenes; pyrenes ± reniform, 7 × 4.5 × 4 mm., rugulose.
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