Description

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Growth Form: Large shrubs 3–4 m tall, sprawling, clambering, and suckering, sparsely pubescent with minute crisped hairs, soon glabrate.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades 5–10 cm long, 3.5–5 cm wide. Apex acute to acuminate. Base rounded to cuneate. Margins entire. Petioles 1–3 cm long. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in sessile, 10–15 in axillary or terminal, subspicate inflorescences, often congested toward apex, most flowers subtended by a bract. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Calyx tubular, 5 lobed, 5–8 mm long, the lobes linear, 1–3 mm long. Corolla orangish yellow, the tube slightly inflated above, 1.7–2 cm long, the lobes broadly triangular, 5 mm long, inrolled during the day. Stamens 5, inserted about middle of corolla tube; anthers ca. 1.5 mm long; filaments with a bluntly conical, pubescent process at the point of insertion. Ovary superior, glabrous, surrounded by a fleshy disk at base; style 1, erect, 15–16 mm long; stigma capitate, slightly exceeding anthers.

Fruit: Berries white; succulent; 8–12 mm long; enclosed by calyx at base. Seeds not seen.

Ploidy: 2n = 16

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