Shrub or tree, sometimes scandent to 5 m tall; twigs slender, tomentose with stalked and sessile porrect hairs, glabrescent. Leaves to 15 cm long and 5 cm broad, ovate or elliptic, slightly oblique, acuminate apically, rounded or obtuse basally, sometimes dimidiate, above dispersed pubescent with sessile, porrect hairs, their midpoints long, beneath dispersed to densely pubescent with sessile and stalked multangulate hairs; petiole short, to 6 mm long; some minor leaves present. Inflorescence lateral, a few-to several-flowered, stalked or almost sessile subumbellate raceme, the peduncle stout, to 2 cm long, tomentose; pedicels to 2 cm long, tomentose with stalked and sessile multangulate stellae, the radii contributing to the pubescence as much or more than the midpoints, some hairs perhaps dendritic rather than truly stellate. Flowers small, calyx 3 cm long, lobed halfway, the lobes obtuse, becoming much larger and subfoliaceous in fruit, to 6 mm long and 3 mm broad; corolla white, 15 mm across, reflexed, drying orange with a prominent dark midvein, lobed 3/4 the way down, the lob'es obtuse; filaments glabrous, connate basally, the anthers stout 2-3 mm long; style glabrous, exserted 2-3 mm. Fruit a white berry 8-10 mm across.
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