Prostrate multi-stemmed shrub, with stems to 1 m, occasionally a weakly erect stem to 1 m, deciduous. Branchlets hirsute. Leaves not crowded; lamina broadly ovate, oblong or orbicular, 9–17.5 cm long, 7–11 cm wide, 1–1.7 times as long as wide, truncate, cordate or somewhat attenuate at base, obtuse at apex, concolorous, villous when young, retaining hairs on veins beneath; domatia absent; petiole 10–30 mm long. Spike rather open, shorter than leaves. Flowers c. 6 mm long, c. 6 mm diam. Calyx villous outside, glabrous inside; lobes triangular, c. 2 mm long and wide. Staminal filaments c. 2.5 mm long. Disc villous. Style glabrous. Mature fruit ovoid, sometimes shortly beaked, 1.3–2 cm long, 1–1.5 cm diam., succulent, pubescent, red; immature fruit longitudinally angled, beaked.
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