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Petals greenish-white to yellow, the outer ones 0.5–1.3 cm. long, triangular-lanceolate to linear, 2.5–4.5 mm. wide at the base, golden-to dark-brown-sericeous-tomentose on both sides or greyish-puberulous within except at the base, the inner ones shorter and narrower, ± unguiculate, brown-tomentose to greyish-puberulous on both sides except at the base.
Fruit on a pedicel 4–6 mm. long; fruiting carpels 1–7, 1–3.2 x 0.7–0.9 cm., 1–6-seeded, obovoid or cylindric, ± curved, rounded at the apex, ± constricted between the seeds when dry, yellow-green and ± densely brown-pubescent outside, cerise within, with stipes 2–4 mm. long.
Sepals 2–3 (4) mm. long, ovate or triangular-ovate, obtuse or rounded to apiculate or acute, densely brown-pubescent outside, glabrous and red-brown within.
Flowers solitary or in clusters of 2–10; pedicels absent or up to 2 mm. long; bracteoles 2, ovate-orbicular, often forming an involucre, persistent.
Carpels 5–11, c. 3 mm. long; ovary ovoid-cylindric or flattened, appressed-pilose; style twice as long as the ovary, cylindric, pilose.
Seeds 0.6–1 cm. long, ovoid-ellipsoid, orange-red, oblique, 2-seriate, entirely covered by an orange aril when fresh.
Branches reddish-brown, ± densely yellowish-or brown-pubescent at first, eventually glabrous.
Shrub or rhizomatous shrublet, 0.4–3 (4.5) m. high, much branched.
Stamens 1 mm. long, linear; connective-prolongation rugulose.
