Description
Shrub or small tree 2–3 m tall; young internodes, grayish to
reddish-brown, terete; all external parts glabrous. Stipules persistent,
sheath triangular, 1–1.5 mm long, awn 1–1.5 mm long. Leaves with
petioles 2–3 mm long; blades lanceolate to oblanceolate, 2.5–6.5 ×
1–3 cm, coriaceous, drying brown or dark brown above; apex acute; base
acute; secondary veins ca. 8 each side. Inflorescence terminal or on
short lateral banches, erect or drooping, with 12-45 flowers,
pedunculate, articulate throughout, lax to moderately compact, 2.5–3 ×
3.5–4.5 cm; one pair of modified inflorescence supporting leaves
present, subsessile, blades lanceolate, 1.4–3.5 × 0.5–2 cm, base
acute; peduncle 2–5.5 cm long; central first order axis 0.5–1 cm long,
lateral first order axes 0.5–1 cm long; first order bracts with
stipular parts absent and the foliar parts filiform, 0.5–1 mm long;
higher order bracts with stipular parts absent and foliar parts
filiform, up to 1.5 mm long. Ultimate flower triads with flowers
subsessile or shortly pedicellate; pedicels of lateral flowers 1–2 mm
long, central flower sessile or with pedicels as long as the lateral
ones. Flowers with ovary and calyx red sometimes green, corolla white
(tinged with pink), style, stigma white, filaments and anthers yellow;
flower bud with rounded apex; bracteoles present on most pedicels,
opposite on the pedicel, narrowly triangular to filiform, apices acute,
0.5–1 mm long; calyx tube ca. 2 mm long; calyx lobes narrowly
triangular, their bases not overlapping; corolla tube 6–8 mm long;
corolla lobes elliptic oblong, 1–2 × 0.5–1 mm, apices obtuse or
rounded; filaments ca. 1 mm long, anthers 0.5–1 mm long; style exserted
from corolla tube for 0.5–1 mm, stigmatic lobes 0.5–1 mm long, erect
or spreading. Fruits globose, 3–4 × 2–3 mm, with persistent calyx.