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Inflorescences subtended by leaves, 1-flowered or 2–3-flowered (i.e. 2 or 3 on a common peduncle, sometimes with one separately borne); peduncles 0.5–6 mm long; single-flowered inflorescence branches (3)5–13 (or up to 20 in fruit) mm long, glabrous or pubescent; bract and bracteoles cupular, c. 1.5 mm long, with 2 short lobes, glabrous or pubescent.
Calyx tube surrounded at the base by a bracteolar cup, glabrous; limb-tube (1.5)2 mm long, gradually widening and sometimes ribbed above (i.e. decurrent mid-nerve of teeth), sometimes splitting, puberulous, with appressed hairs or sparsely so, with silky hairs inside; lobes c. 0.25–1 mm long, subulate.
Corolla white; tube 7–10 mm long, glabrous outside, pilose inside; lobes 7–8 × 2.5–3 mm, acute or acuminate, glabrous or sometimes puberulous or ciliate towards the tip outside.
Shrub or small tree 1–4 m tall; young twigs sulcate, evenly puberulous-pubescent or bifariously puberulous or ± glabrous; older stems with pinkish-fawn bark.
Style 11–15(16) mm long, glabrous; pollen presenter arms held above or level with anther tips; ovules 2 per placenta.
Filaments c. 1 mm long; anthers inframedifixed, ¾ exserted not spreading, 3–5 mm long, shortly apiculate, glabrous.
Fruit red, 10 × 6–8 mm, ellipsoid, crowned by persistent calyx limb.
Seeds 1 per locule, semi-ellipsoid, hilum linear, curved.
Flowers 6-merous, sweet-scented.
