Shrubs, to ca 3 m, stems densely pubescent, the hairs short, brown. Leaves opposite to subopposite, ovate to ovate-elliptic, finely undulate to irregularly finely dentate, acute or acute-acuminate, the bases + obtuse, to 17 cm long and 8 cm wide, densely to moderately short-hairy, more so on the veins beneath, cystolith-dotted; petioles to ca 3 cm long. Inflorescences cymose, once or twice dich-otomously branched, the branches to ca 12 cm long, axillary or terminnal. Flowers + sessile or with pedicels to ca 1 mm long; calyx of 5 free sepals, narrow-lanceolate, 7-10 mm long, strigose; corolla green to yellow, strigose, the tube ca 5-7 mm long, the lobes keeled, each ca 2 mm long; stamens 5, borne near the apex at the corolla tube, sessile, the anthers ca 1.8 mm long; ovary ovoid, the style ca 1-2 mm long, the stigma conical. Fruit pyramidal, unlobed, fleshy, ca 5-7 mm in diameter, separating into 1-4 nutlets at maturity.
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