Description

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Growth Form: Shrubs.

Stems: Stems sparingly branched, smooth or sparsely muricate.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades oblong to obovate Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescences 5–12–flowered, axillary, peduncles 30–75 mm long, pedicels 18–35 mm long; hypanthium obconical, 8–12 mm long, 3–6 mm wide. Flowers bisexual (perfect). calyx lobes 10–15 mm long, 2.4–4 mm wide, narrowly oblong or narrowly triangular Corolla zygomatic, greenish white or purplish, 60–70 mm long, 5–11 mm wide, pubescent at least on the lobes, the tube arcuate, dorsally cleft to about the middle, the lobes spreading, ¼–1⁄2 as long as the tube. dorsal anthers 12-13.5 mm long Ovary inferior, 2-celled; ovule placentation axile; stigma 2-lobed, wet or dry, appressed and nonreceptive as the style grows through the anther tube, pushing out the pollen, after which the stigmas spread apart and become receptive.

Fruit: Berries yellow; globose. Seeds numerous; small; brown to black; smooth; shiny; 0.2–0.5(–2) mm long; with a straight; short to spatulate dicotyledonous embryo embedded in oily endosperm.

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