Herbs, shrubs or trees to 4 m tall, erect or sprawling, sometimes blooming and fruiting on turoins only 20 cm tall; twigs puberulent with mostly simple or glandular and occasionally dendritic hairs. Leaves ovate or elliptic, to 20 cm long, apically acute or acuminate, basally obtuse or rounded, sometimes dimidiate, above glabrate with scattered simple hairs, beneath glabrate to tomentose with erect hairs mostly on the veins, membranaceous, seldom drying dark; the petiole to /3 as long as the leaf, puberulent; minor leaves present or wanting, often equalling the major leaves. Inflorescence a many-flowered fascicle on short, obscure peduncles; the pedicels mostly puberulent, slender, ca. 10 mm long. Flowers with the calyx very small, to 2 mm long but mostly much shorter, not enlarging in fruit, but sometimes splitting, pubescent or not, the apex truncate; the corolla 4-5-merous, rotate, the tube 1-3 mm long, always much shorter than the lobes, puberulent outside and with a ring of hairs at the apex within, the lobes obtuse to lanceolate, 3-6 mm long, puberulent outside, glabrous within, yellow, brown or green, often spotted; filaments short, flattened, tomentose on the ventral surface, the anthers ovate to oblongoid, mostly 2-3 mm long, longer than the filaments, apiculate, the connective conspicuous on the dorsal surface or not. Fruit orange to scarlet, glabrous or pubescent, globose or obovoid, juicy, ca. 8 mm long but very variable in size within a single fascicle, elevated above the leaves, stone cells sometimes present; seeds 1-1.5 mm long, yellow.
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