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Corolla minutely apiculate in bud; greenish-white; tube 2.5 mm long, shortly cylindrical, with ring of deflexed hairs inside; lobes 3 × 1.3 mm, oblong, with scarcely any appendage.
Shrub or small tree 1.2–1.5 m tall, glabrous; bark on older shoots greyish, ridged and peeling revealing purplish-red beneath.
Flowers in 2-flowered cymes; peduncle 5–7 mm long, ± equalling or mostly longer than the 2–5 mm long pedicels.
Pollen presenter 1 mm long, obconic, obscurely sulcate, truncately 3-lobed at the apex.
Flowers white or greenish, paired on slender axillary peduncles; with reflexed petals
Calyx tube 1–1.2 mm long; limb c. 0.25 mm long, minutely denticulate.
A glabrous shrub with slender branchlets, more or less scrambling
Fruit not seen from the Flora Zambesiaca area.
Style exserted about 2 mm.
Ovary 3-locular.
Elegant foliage
A shrub.
