Shrub 1-4 m. Twigs often zigzag, appressedly brown-pilose. Leaves alternate, sparsely appressedly pilose beneath, the midrib and the finely glandular-dentate recurved margin beneath conspicuously densely appressedly brown-pilose, acuminate with cuneate to rounded base, elliptic, 2-3½ by l¼-l¾ cm; nerves 5-7 pairs; petiole 2-4 mm. Flowers solitary, often several brown-pilose bracts indicating the derivation from a more-flowered inflorescence, the 2 uppermost bracts 3-5 by 1-3 mm, persistent. Pedicel from twig to flower up to 1 cm. Calyx loosely appressedly pilose, divided into the narrowly elliptic, acute, c. 3 mm long lobes. Corolla c. 4 mm. Stamens c. 50. Disk glabrous. Ovary with same indument as calyx, c. 1 mm high; style glabrous, c. 5 mm. Fruit sparsely pilose, ellipsoid to ovoid, green to deep indigo when ripe, 8-9 by c. 4 mm; stone narrowly ovoid, muricate with shallow lengthwise grooves. Seed 1, embryo straight (only young seeds seen).
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