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Old branches black or rarely somewhat rusty-black, glabrescent, the young ones short, slender, greenish or yellowish-green and rather pubescent with yellowish, straight or curved, antrorse hairs, densely leafy.
Capsule 2·5–3 mm. long, ovoid-ellipsoid, pale green, puberulous, without black glands, sometimes pendulous; valves c. 1·5 mm. broad, subelliptic; fructiferous peduncle c. 5 mm. long, sometimes deflexed.
Raceme up to 7-flowered, rarely 1-flowered, pubescent, without tubercle-based hairs; pedicels 4–5 mm. long, very slender, hispidulous or both hispidulous and pubescent.
Buds subspherical, pubescent and sometimes also hispidulous (hairs short, very slender).
Calyx-lobes 2·25–2·5 mm. long, oblong, with hyaline margin, black-punctate on the back.
Seed 2·25–2·75 mm. long, yellowish-brown; aril less than half the length of the seed.
A very much branched undershrub or shrub up to 2 m. high.
Ovary densely pubescent; styles ± 0·6–0·75 mm. long.
Petals 3–5·5 mm. long, obtuse, white.
