Shrubs 0.7-1 m tall, young branchlets, leaves, inflorescences, and flowers with dense pale grayish, yellowish, or yellowish brown, uniformly long, verticillate hairs, at least some dendritic hairs. Branches grayish, glabrous, scattered lenticellate. Leaves opposite; petiole 7-10 mm, pilose; leaf blade ovate or oblong, 5-10 × (2.3-)3-6 cm, thinly leathery or papery, abaxial surface minutely tomentose, adaxial surface glabrous, lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs, base broadly cuneate to obtuse, apex acute or obtuse. Racemes solitary or 2-or 3-fascicled, axillary, sometimes at leafless nodes, 5-9-flowered; peduncle 5-8 mm; bracts ovate-triangular, ca. 1 mm. Flowers densely alternate. Pedicel 1.5-2.5 mm. Calyx pyriform, ca. 2.5 mm, limb annular, entire or 4-denticulate. Mature bud tubular, [1.1-]2.2-2.5 cm, tip ellipsoid. Corolla red, curved, apical portion slightly inflated, lobes lanceolate, 6-8 mm, reflexed. Filaments ca. 1 mm; anthers 2.5-3 mm. Stigma subglobose. Berry greenish, pyriform, ca. 8 × 3.5 mm, pilose. Fl. Jun-Oct, fr. Sep-Dec.
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Young parts with a dense cream or rarely greyish to dark ochre indumentum of stellate hairs, becoming sparse on adult stems, leaf upper surfaces and flowers. Leaves opposite; lamina elliptic to obovate, 5-10 by 2.3-5 cm, cuneate to slightly cordate at the base to a petiole 6-12 mm long, usually rounded at the apex; venation obscure except for the midrib and a few major laterals visible above. Inflorescences several at the nodes, a (2-)4-6(-8)-flowered raceme; axis 5-12 mm long; pedicels 2-3 mm long; bract deltoid, erect, c. 1.5 mm long. Corolla in mature bud (ll-)13-20(-24) mm long, slender, narrowly clavate and acute at the apex; tube 7-15 mm long, deeply split. Anther c. 1 mm long, about half as long as the free part of the filament. Fruit 8-9 mm long including a thick stipe 2-3 mm long, contracted at the apex. Fig. 41.
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