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Leaf blades 1.6–7(11) × 0.7–3.6(5.5) cm, ± elliptic, shortly to distinctly acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, drying darkish green above, paler green beneath, with reddish very reticulate venation, with scattered appressed subscabrid hairs above, appressed hairy on the main venation beneath; petioles 0.3–1.2 cm long, spreading hairy; stipule limbs 2.5–5.5 × 2.8–5 mm, transversely oblate, rounded or emarginate at the apex, with bristly colleters inside.
Flowers in tight capitate few-flowered inflorescences about 1 cm wide; peduncles 0.6–2.5(4) cm long; pedicels obsolete; bracts conspicuous, all reddish at the base when dry, the outer pair 6–10 × 4–6 mm, joined near the extreme base to form a ± boat-shaped involucre, the inner 6 lateral ones slightly smaller, 5 × 3 mm, ± hairy.
Scandent shrub; stems 2.3–4.5(9) m long, fairly slender, reddish-brown, the young parts with scattered longer spreading hairs, often purplish (in life) and short denser appressed pubescence, the older stems with bark tending to peel.
Calyx tube subglobose, pilose or pubescent, limb-tube 1–2 mm long, glabrous; lobes 1–3 × 0.6–1 mm, elliptic, oblong or subspathulate, minutely pubescent on inner face, with longer marginal hairs and on midrib outside.
Style 8 mm long in long-styled flowers, the style arms and stigma together 1.5–2.5 mm long; style 4.5 mm long in short-styled flowers, the arms and stigmas 3 mm long.
Corolla white or pinkish; tube 6–8 mm long, cylindric, silky pilose above outside; lobes 4–5, 3–3.5 × 1.8–2 mm, narrowly ovate, silky pilose outside.
Fruit about 1 cm in diameter, globose, purple or crimson when ripe, with whitish bloom, pubescent or glabrous, with a wine-coloured pulp.
Anthers near top of corolla tube in long-styled flowers, tips just exserted in short-styled flowers.
