Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Shrubs or small trees up to 3 m tall, flowering at 1.5–3 m tall; flowering at 1.5–3 m tall.

Stems: branched from near base, with repeated candelabra-like branching, bark rugose-fissured, light brown, leafy branches green, latex white, with short internodes.

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Leaves: alternate, clustered at the distal ends of the branches. Blade 10–12(–18) cm long, 2.0–3.5(–4) cm wide, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, chartaceous. apex acute to short-acuminate, occasionally with a short mucro 1 mm long base cuneate to attenuate. adaxial surface green, glossy when fresh, drying dull, glabrous; abaxial surface paler than adaxial surface, glabrous secondary veins 15–16 on each side petiolate

Flowers: Inflorescence (2)3–4(–5)-flowered, glabrous; peduncle 15–30(–42) mm long; bracts triangular, ca. 1 mm long, deciduous. calyx 1/2–4/5 as long as petals, lobes petaloid, similar in color to corolla, often pale greenish tinged toward base, sometimes creamy white with violet-purple irregular veins, lobes connate for 1/3–1/2 their length, not appressed to petals, erect to spreading; corolla weakly zygomorphic to nearly rotate when fresh, slightly to moderately curved, perianth (30–)35–45(–50) mm long, perianth tube 15–25(–27) mm long, 9–10 mm wide, the lobes 20–26 mm long, (2.0–)3.0–3.5 mm wide, the dorsal and ventral lobes spreading in distal half, pale violet-purple, often suffused with creamy white streaks, occasionally creamy white, glabrous; staminal column violet, 2.0–2.5 mm wide, filaments 30–40 mm long, anthers darker violet, anther tube 9–12 mm long, 2.3–3.0 mm wide.

Fruit: Fruit a fleshy berry; dull orange; obconic to turbinate; 15–20 mm long; 10–15 mm wide; smooth; sepals and petals caducous. Seeds obovoid; slightly compressed; 0.5–0.6 mm long; 0.5 mm wide; testa dark brown; glossy; smooth.

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