Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Subshrubs.

Stems: Stems decumbent to sprawling and scandent, 3–5 dm long, viscid puberulent, especially on younger parts, often swollen at the nodes.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite or whorled; widely spaced. Blades linear–lanceolate, 40–80 mm long, 5–10 mm wide. Base leaf somewhat tapering to base. Upper surfaces sparsely puberulent toward base;, green on upper surface; lower surfaces paler. Margins entire. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in short, axillary, congested, paniculate cymes, viscid puberulent throughout. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Pedicels 2–3 mm long. Calyx 5-toothed, ca.7–9 mm long, 10–nerved, viscid puberulent, somewhat closed at the mouth, the lobes obtuse, ciliate. Corolla of 5 petals; petals apparently white, ca. 2–3 mm long, cleft, not clawed. Stamens included in calyx. Ovary superior, 1-celled or incompletely 2–4 celled, on a well–developed stipe that is adnate to the staminal filament bases and petal bases (referred to as a carpophore); styles 3(4–5); Carpophore ca. 3 mm long, enlarging to ca. 10–10.5 mm long in fruit.

Fruit: Capsules ovoid; probably 3–celled in the lower part; 8–9 mm long; opening by 6 obtuse teeth. Seeds dark reddish brown; reniform; ca. 1–1.1 mm long; spinose with long papillae.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Known only from the type collected at unknown elevation and plant community.

Elevation Range: