Shrub or small tree to several metres, deep green; young shoots and inflorescence pubescent with minute stellate hairs, the mature twigs and leaves glabrous except leaf axils; prickles absent or 1–2 mm long. Upper leaves usually in unequal-sized pairs; larger leaf elliptic, the lamina up to 30 cm long and 15 cm wide, concolorous, entire; petiole 20–35 mm long; smaller leaf similar, the lamina up to 15 cm long and 5 cm wide; petiole 5–10 mm long. Inflorescence often forked, 10–20-flowered; peduncle to first fork c. 10 mm long; rachis 5–10 mm long; pedicels 5–8 mm long, elongated in fruit. Calyx 2–3 mm long; lobes triangular, short. Corolla stellate, deeply incised, 20–30 mm diam., 4–5–lobed, violet. Anthers 4–5 mm long. Berry globular, 8–10 mm diam., orange or orange-red; fruiting pedicels 1–1.5 cm long. Seeds 3 mm long, colour not known.
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