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Trees to 12 m tall, with spines when young. Branchlets sparsely pubescent or glabrous; branches grayish, rough with many small lenticels. Petiole 2--4 mm; leaf blade 2.5--10 X 1.5--6 cm, thinly papery, both surfaces glabrous, abaxially granular, base cuneate to slightly cordate, apex rounded, obtuse, or acute, basal veins 3--5. Thyrses terminal, ca. 9-flowered, pubescent. Calyx lobes broadly ovate. Corolla salverform, 1--1.5 cm; tube 7--12 mm, outside pubescent. Stamens inserted at corolla mouth, glabrous; filaments short; anthers oblong, 1.5--1.7 mm, apex exserted. Ovary globose, ca. l mm in diam. Style ca. 1.2 mm; stigma truncate. Berries globose, 2--2.5 cm in diam., smooth, glabrous, 2-or 3-seeded. Seeds nearly disc-shaped, 1.2--1.5 X 1--1.2 cm, densely pubescent. Fl. Mar-Jun, fr. Aug-Nov.
Deciduous shrub or small tree to 12 m high, with super-axillary spines when young, minutely pubescent, glabrescent; tendrils lacking. Leaves with petiole 1–3 mm long; lamina ovate to elliptic, 2.6–6.1 cm long, 1.7–3.7 cm wide; lower surface minutely papillose; minor veins conspicuous. Inflorescences terminal, usually crowded, 25–30 mm long, minutely papillose. Calyx 1–1.3 mm long; outer surface tomentose. Corolla tubular, 10–15 mm long, 3/4-connate, aromatic, cream-white to yellow-green; inner surface sometimes with a few woolly hairs; lobes not thickened. Stamens inserted in corolla mouth. Gynoecium 8–12 mm long, glabrous. Fruits globular, 16–25 mm diam., orange to yellow, smooth. Seeds 2 or 3, nearly disc-shaped, c. 14 mm long, with dense appressed capillary hairs.
A tree. It grows 12 m tall. It has spines when young. The leaves are 2.5-10 cm long by 1.5-6 cm wide. There are about 9 flowers in a group at the ends of branches. The fruit are berries 2-2.5 cm across. There are 2 or 3 seeds. These are disk shaped and 1.2-1.5 cm across. They are hairy.
