Description

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Growth Form: Herbs or subshrubs up to 1 m tall, unarmed, pubescent with incurved or appressed simple hairs.

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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*

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