Description
Key Characters:
Growth Form:
Herbs or subshrubs up to 1 m tall, unarmed, pubescent with incurved or appressed simple hairs.
Stems:
Roots:
Leaves:
Leaves simple.
Alternate.
Blades ovate–elliptic, up to 10 cm long and 6 cm wide, but often somewhat smaller.
Apex acute to acuminate.
Base broadly cuneate to rounded, usually oblique.
Surfaces pubescent.
Margins entire or shallowly repand.
Petioles 1–3.5 cm long.
Stipules absent.
Flowers:
Flowers few to 8 in extra-axillary (upper part of internode) racemose cymes, sometimes forked. peduncles ca. 2 cm long.
Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic, Self-compatible. Pedicels ca. 8 mm long.
Calyx ca. 2 mm long, the lobes ca. 1 mm long, apex rounded.
Corolla white, deeply divided, ca. 6 mm long, the lobes ca. 4 mm long.
Stamens inserted near base of corolla tube; filaments ca. 2 mm long, pubescent; anthers yellow, ca. 2 mm long, opening by terminal slits.
Ovary superior, globose, ca. 1 mm in diameter; style 1, erect, ca.4 mm long, pubescent in lower part.
Fruit:
Berries few to 6 in clusters; dull purplish black at maturity; succulent; globose; ca. 0.8 cm in diameter; glabrous; calyx somewhat enlarged; pedicels deflexed.
Seeds numerous; compressed; obovate; lenticular; acute at the hilar point; ca. 1.5 mm long; minutely reticulate.
Ploidy:
2n = 24*
Habitat:
Elevation Range: