Shrubs, to 1 m. Stems armed, tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves deciduous; petiole 0.5-5 mm, pilosulous; blade (dull dark green adaxially), broadly elliptic, oblanceolate, obovate, or spatulate, 3-52 × 2-21 mm, base acute to cuneate, margins plane, apex obtuse or rounded, sometimes retuse, abaxial surface sparsely strigose (hairs white to gray, rarely tawny), venation visible, adaxial surface glabrate, midrib flat, marginal vein absent. Inflorescences 2-18-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary. Pedicels 1-5.5 mm, sparsely strigose. Flowers: calyx 2-2.8 mm diam.; sepals (4-)5(-6), 2.1-3 × 0.8-1.2 mm, glabrate to tomentose; petals (4-)5(-6), white, median segment ovate to suborbiculate, 2.4-2.6 mm, lateral segments lanceolate to oblong, 2-2.3 mm; stamens (4-)5(-6), 2.1-3.5 mm; staminodes lanceolate to ovate, 1.3-2.1 mm, erose; anthers lanceolate to sagittate, 1.1-1.5 mm; pistil 5-carpellate; ovary 5-locular, 1-1.2 mm, glabrate or villous; style 1-1.5 mm. Berries purplish black, ellipsoid to subglobose, 9-14 mm, glabrous or glabrate. Seeds 7.3-9 mm.
Home