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Shrub or small tree, sometimes scandent, up to 4.5(–7.5) m tall; young stems stellate-pubescent, sometimes densely so or with long hairs. Leaves ovate to elliptic or obovate, 0.6–10.5 cm long, 0.5–6.7 cm wide, obtuse to rounded at the apex, rounded at the base, margins serrate, ± glabrous above, scattered stellate-pubescent to glabrescent beneath; petiole 2–8 mm long, shortly stellate-pubescent or with long hairs; stipules subulate, 2–5 mm long. Inflorescences terminal and axillary 2–6-flowered cymes; peduncle 3–18 mm long, pubescent with stellate and simple hairs; pedicels 8–18 mm long, pubescent with stellate and simple hairs. Flowers purple, blue, mauve or pink; sepals lanceolate, 11–25 mm long, green and pubescent on the outside; petals elliptic to elliptic-oblong, 8–15 mm long, 2.5–5 mm wide, obtuse or notched at the apex. Androgynophore glabrous for ± 0.5–1 mm at the base, densely pubescent and produced for 2–5.5 mm above the node; stamens 7–10 mm long; filaments purple; anthers yellow; ovary 1.5–2 mm long, densely hairy; style 5–9 mm long; stigma green. Fruit (1–)4-lobed, 8–15 mm wide, the lobes 5–8 mm long, 4–7 mm wide, green maturing orange to orange-red, sometimes yellow or red, sparsely hairy. Fig. 3/1 (leaf, p. 9).