Description
Key Characters:
Growth Form:
Herbs erect, 40–60 cm tall.
Stems:
Stems much branched, pubescence of simple, sometimes glandular hairs. Stems pubescent, often angular.
Roots:
Leaves:
Leaves simple.
Alternate.
Blades ovate to elliptic, 3-7 × 2-4 cm.
Apex acute.
Base cuneate, decurrent.
Surfaces sparsely pubescent.
Margins entire, sinuate, or coarsely dentate.
Petioles 5-10 mm, winged.
Flowers:
Inflorescences extra-axillary, umbellate; peduncle 1 cm, unbranched.
Pedicel 4-6 mm.
Calyx 2 × 1-1.5 mm, puberulent; lobes obtuse, less than 1 mm, ciliate, sinuses rounded.
Corolla white or purplish, sometimes drying yellowish, 5-7 × 8-10 mm; lobes ovate-lanceolate, ca. 3 mm, ciliate, strongly spreading and reflexed.
Filaments 1.5-1.8 mm, pubescent; anthers ca. 2 mm.
Ovary superior; style 3-4.5 mm, pilose at base.
Fruit:
Berries red; orange; or yellow; often bright; globose; 6-8 mm in diam. Fruiting pedicel 1-1.5 cm; pubescent.
Seeds discoid; ca. 1 mm.
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