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Leaves 3(5)-foliolate; petioles 0.5–3 cm long, grooved; median petiolules 0.1–0.9 cm long; leaflets 1.5–5 × 1–2.4 cm, median leaflet largest, elliptic to narrowly obovate, ± rounded or bluntly acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, entire or widely toothed or crenate toward the apex, somewhat coriaceous, shiny dark green and glabrous on upper surface, sparsely pubescent beneath, nerves sunken above with reticulation ± raised beneath, often with tufts of hairs in the axils of the lateral nerves beneath.
A shrub or small tree. It grows 3-7 m tall. It is slightly hairy. The branches have lines along them or are angled. The leaves are opposite and compound. The leaf stalk is slender and 3 cm long. The leaves have 3 or 5 leaflets. The blades are oval and slightly wavy along the edge. The leaves are 8 cm long by 4 cm wide. The flowering stalks are in the axils of leaves. The flowers are in a loose clusters. They are mauve or white. The fruit is round and black. It is 1.2 cm across.
Corolla 16–18 mm long, usually gland-dotted, pubescent, glandular hairs present, sweet-scented; tube creamy-white, 7–10 mm long, straight; lobes bright mauve or violet, spreading to reflexed, middle lower lobe largest, 8–12 × 9–12 mm.
Shrub, 2-3(-4) m high. Young branches with grooves. Flowers fairly large, 16-18 mm long. Calyx cup-shaped in fruit. Ovary glabrous in upper half. Fruit fleshy. Flowers bright violet.
Straggling shrub or small tree 2–4(7) m tall; bark finely fissured, dark grey-brown; older stems red-brown tomentose; young stems yellow-brown tomentose, angular, often ribbed.
Drupe (5)10 × 7–10 mm, obovoid, rounded at apex, not enclosed in the enlarged calyx, black at maturity; fruiting calyx cup-shaped, pubescent, not gland-dotted.
Inflorescences axillary, of ± slender simple few-flowered dichasia 3.5–6 cm long, with scattered yellow hairs; bracteoles linear.
Calyx obconical, 5-toothed, gland-dotted, pubescent, somewhat accrescent in fruit; tube 4–4.5 mm long.
Ovary globose, truncate apex, not gland-dotted, pubescent at apex; style c. 15 mm long.
Stamens clearly exserted from tube; filaments with glandular hairs.
