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Relatively large shrubs over 1 m high. Stems rather thin, puberulent when young, glabrate with age. Leaves opposite-subopposite, occasionally fascicled on older stems, glabrous, mostly lanceolate-oblong, 30-40 x 10-20 mm, somewhat chartaceous, conspicuously penninerved; petioles 2-4 mm long, usually puberulent. Inflorescence: umbels sessile-subsessile, 4-6-flowered, mostly solitary in axils; pedicels and bracts pubescent. Corolla with conspicuous, rounded-oblong basal swelling, pilose, base green, tube reddish-purple, apex green, 35-40 mm long, tube split 10-12 mm below lobes; lobes reflexed. Filaments with a small tooth below anthers. Style constricted below stigma. Berries ellipsoid, 10-12 mm long, red, slightly warty. Flowering from April through September and probably also in other months.
Corolla tube 2.7–3.2 cm long, dull red, generally with whitish spots, head of buds green turning greyish-black particularly along angles; bud heads 4 × 2–3 mm, oblong to oblong-obovoid, rounded to subtruncate, angled or narrowly winged; basal swelling 4–5 × 3–5 mm, variously ellipsoid-obovoid to obovoid or depressed globose, tube constricted 2–4 mm above; lobes 7–9 mm long, reflexed, the upper expanded part 4 × 1.5–2 mm.
Leaves mostly opposite; petiole 4–10 mm long; lamina coriaceous, green to slightly glaucous, 2–8 × (0.5)1–4 cm, mostly ovate-elliptic to obovate-elliptic, less often lanceolate, generally obtuse to shortly rounded at apex, cuneate to shortly rounded at base, with 4–6 pairs of lateral nerves, the lower ones strongly ascending.
Shrub, up to 1 m high, parasitic on species of Acacia and Sterculia. Leaves with a minute, usually dull whitish margin. Corolla tube conspicuously swollen at base, lobes reflexed, glabrous. Flowers dull pink with greenish apex.
Umbels in axils and at older nodes, 2–4-flowered; peduncle 1–3 mm long; pedicels 0–3 mm long; bract 1.5–2 mm long, saucer-shaped, with a small triangular limb, occasionally slightly glandular-papillate.
Stems spreading to 1–1.5 m, essentially glabrous; lateral branches mostly rather short.
Stamen filaments green; tooth 0.5–0.7 mm long; anthers 2–3 mm long.
Style with neck 2–3 mm long; stigma 0.7–0.8 mm across, capitate.
Berry not seen, said to be orange.
Calyx 1–1.5 mm, saucer-shaped.
Receptacle 1–1.5 mm.
