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Spreading shrub, often much branched from ground level, 1–8 m tall; bark smooth or fissured, flaking, dark or light grey-brown; older stems grey-brown pubescent and young stems orange-tawny tomentellous, shortly tomentose on buds.
Corolla c. 14 mm long, gland-dotted, pubescent, with glandular hairs, flowers sweet-scented; tube white, 5–6.5 mm long, straight; lobes mauve to violet, spreading to reflexed, middle lower lobe largest, 7–8 × 5 mm.
Drupe c. 1.2 × 0.8–1 cm, obovoid, rounded at apex, scarcely enclosed in the enlarged calyx, purple-black at maturity; fruiting calyx saucer-shaped, delicate, pubescent, not gland-dotted.
Inflorescences axillary, of ± slender simple 1–7-flowered dichasia 3–5 cm long, with orange-tawny hairs; bracteoles linear, up to 1.5 mm long; pedicels to 10 mm long.
Calyx obconical, 5-toothed, pubescent, gland-dotted, accrescent in fruit; tube c. 2 mm long; teeth 0.3–0.5 mm long, erect.
Ovary globose, with a few apical gland-dots, glabrous, rounded at apex; style c. 6.5–9 mm long.
Stamens clearly exserted from tube; filaments with scattered glandular hairs.
