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Inflorescences subtended by leaves, or sometimes borne at naked nodes, up to 6-flowered; peduncles 1–2 mm long; intermediate inflorescence branches present, discernible but short; single-flowered inflorescence branches 0.75–1.5 mm long, c. 2 mm long in fruit; bract and bracteoles cupular, c. 1 mm long, with 2 short lobes, ciliate.
Corolla white; tube 5–7 mm long, 0.7–2 mm wide at top, glabrous or sparsely pubescent outside, sparsely pilose inside; lobes 5–6 × 2.5 mm, emarginate or acuminate, pubescent towards top below and pilose towards the base above.
Calyx tube mostly surrounded by bracteolar cup, glabrous; limb-tube 1–2 mm long, ribbed (i.e. decurrent mid-nerve of lobes, with folds in between), glabrous, with colleters inside; lobes c. 0.5 mm long, rounded, ciliate.
Suffrutex 0.3–1 m tall, with creeping rhizomes; young stems glabrous; older stems with light brown, buff-or wine-coloured bark.
Style (5)7–10 mm long, glabrous; stigma c. 1 mm long, subcapitate, with lobes adherent, sub-rotund; ovules 2–3 per placenta.
Seeds 1 per locule (?or per fruit), c. 5 × 4.5 mm ellipsoid, with broadly linear hilar groove.
Fruit red, c. 10 × 7 mm, broadly ellipsoid, crowned by persistent calyx limb.
Stamens subsessile; anthers inframedifixed, 3.5–4 mm long, obtuse, glabrous.
Flowers 6-merous, subsessile.
