Shrubs ca. 1 m tall, young branchlets and leaves with dense darkly reddish brown, longer and shorter verticillate hairs, soon mealy. Branches gray, glabrous, lenticellate. Leaves opposite; petiole 2-6 mm; leaf blade broadly elliptic or ovate, 5-10 × 2-6 cm, thinly leathery, abaxial surface with sparse, short verticillate hairs or subglabrous, adaxial surface glabrous, lateral veins 5-8 pairs, base rounded to shallowly cordate, apex obtuse to subrounded. Racemes solitary or 2 together, axillary, 4-6-flowered; peduncle and rachis 3-10 mm, with dense, long, darkly ferruginous, verticillate hairs. Flowers densely alternate; bracts ovate-triangular, ca. 0.5 mm. Pedicel 1-1.5 cm. Calyx ovoid, ca. 4 mm, limb annular. Mature bud tubular, 0.8-1.5 cm, tip ellipsoid, apex obtuse. Corolla brown, slightly curved, tomentose, apical portion inflated, lobes lanceolate, ca. 4.5 mm, reflexed. Filaments ca. 1 mm; anthers ca. 1 mm. Stigma subcapitate. Fruiting pedicel ca. 3 mm, recurved. Berry pyriform, 8-10 × 3-4 mm, with verticillate hairs, base contracted into stalk. Fl. Oct-Feb.
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Young parts with a dense ochre to reddish brown indumentum of short stellate and longer dendritic hairs, becoming sparse on adult stems and leaf upper surfaces. Leaves opposite; lamina elliptic to ovate or slightly obovate, (3-)5-10 by (1.5-)2-5.5 cm, cuneate to weakly cordate at the base to a petiole 2-6(-10) mm long, obtuse or rounded at the apex; venation obscure except for the midrib and a few major laterals visible above. Inflorescences several at the nodes, a 2-to 5-flowered raceme; axis 2—10(—15) mm long; pedicels 0.5-2.5(-4) mm long; bract narrow, erect, 1—2(—3) mm long. Corolla in mature bud (6-)8-14(-23) mm long, straight or slightly curved, usually robust, rarely relatively slender and weakly clavate, obtuse to truncate at the apex; tube 5-15 mm long, split to the middle or lower. Anther 0.5-1 mm long, about half as long as the free part of the filament. Fruit 8-10 mm long including a stipe 4-6 mm long, rounded at the apex.
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