Much-branched, unarmed, viscid, densely glandular-hairy annual, with low spreading, bushy habit. Stems to c. 50 cm long. Petioles to 2 cm long. Lamina 2-7 × 1.5-4 cm, ovate or rhombic-ovate, with simple and glandular hairs, coarsely serrate-dentate to nearly entire; base cuneate; apex obtuse or acute. Cymes ± racemose, or pseudoumbellate; fls 3-9; peduncles 5-15 mm long, > pedicels, deflexed at fruiting. Calyx 1-3 mm long at anthesis, strongly accrescent and enveloping lower part of berry at fruiting; lobes lanceolate to elliptic. Corolla 9-10 mm diam., white, generally with purple tinge outside; lobes ± triangular, hairy outside. Anthers 1.5-2.3 mm long. Berry 8-10 mm diam., globose, mottled pale green or yellowish green and deep green; stone cells present. Seeds 1.5-2 mm diam., ellipsoid to obovoid or suborbicular.
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