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Shrub 0·5–1·25 (2) m. tall, much branched, canescent to glaucous-grey with a dense very short velvety indumentum; stems terete, slender, at length glabrescent, woody and ultimately covered with a light brown or greyish bark with short darker linear markings. Leaf-lamina 2–6 (10) × 1·5–4 (6) cm., apex obtuse to acute or somewhat acuminate, margin usually subentire to slightly crenate or serrate, less often more conspicuously serrate, upper surface grey-green with indistinct venation, lower surface paler and canescent with distinct somewhat prominent venation; petiole somewhat shorter or slightly longer than the corresponding lamina. Flowers solitary on the main branches and/or on short leafy axillary shoots; pedicels 0·5–4 (8) cm. long, slender, terete, articulated near the apex. Calyx 5–6 mm. long, broadly campanulate to cupular, divided to about the middle; lobes triangular or triangular-ovate, mucronate, minutely ciliate, with indistinct median vein. Petals 7–10 mm. long. Staminal tube stellate-hairy. Fruit 8 × 10–12 mm., broadly cylindric with rounded base, widely and shallowly umbilicate. Mericarps usually c. 10, broadly keeled in apical half (hence fruit in upper half characteristically furrowed between the mericarps), obliquely truncate-convex at the apex with the dorsal angle subacute to shortly mucronate but not awned, when not yet ripe densely and shortly greyish-green, ultimately grey-brown, stellate-tomentose dorsally and on the apical dorsal area of the flat sides, not turning black. Seeds usually 3, c. 1·5 × 1·5 mm., usually greyish-brown, minutely verruculose-punctate.

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Shrub 0·5–1·25 (2) m. tall, much branched, canescent to glaucous-grey with a dense very short velvety indumentum; stems terete, slender, at length glabrescent, woody and ultimately covered with a light brown or greyish bark with short darker linear markings. Leaf-lamina 2–6 (10) × 1·5–4 (6) cm., apex obtuse to acute or somewhat acuminate, margin usually subentire to slightly crenate or serrate, less often more conspicuously serrate, upper surface grey-green with indistinct venation, lower surface paler and canescent with distinct somewhat prominent venation; petiole somewhat shorter or slightly longer than the corresponding lamina. Flowers solitary on the main branches and/or on short leafy axillary shoots; pedicels 0·5–4 (8) cm. long, slender, terete, articulated near the apex. Calyx 5–6 mm. long, broadly campanulate to cupular, divided to about the middle; lobes triangular or triangular-ovate, mucronate, minutely ciliate, with indistinct median vein. Petals 7–10 mm. long. Staminal tube stellate-hairy. Fruit 8 × 10–12 mm., broadly cylindric with rounded base, widely and shallowly umbilicate. Mericarps usually c. 10, broadly keeled in apical half (hence fruit in upper half characteristically furrowed between the mericarps), obliquely truncate-convex at the apex with the dorsal angle subacute to shortly mucronate but not awned, when not yet ripe densely and shortly greyish-green, ultimately grey-brown, stellate-tomentose dorsally and on the apical dorsal area of the flat sides, not turning black. Seeds usually 3, c. 1·5 × 1·5 mm., usually greyish-brown, minutely verruculose-punctate.

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Shrub 0·5–1·25 (2) m. tall, much branched, canescent to glaucous-grey with a dense very short velvety indumentum; stems terete, slender, at length glabrescent, woody and ultimately covered with a light brown or greyish bark with short darker linear markings. Leaf-lamina 2–6 (10) × 1·5–4 (6) cm., apex obtuse to acute or somewhat acuminate, margin usually subentire to slightly crenate or serrate, less often more conspicuously serrate, upper surface grey-green with indistinct venation, lower surface paler and canescent with distinct somewhat prominent venation; petiole somewhat shorter or slightly longer than the corresponding lamina. Flowers solitary on the main branches and/or on short leafy axillary shoots; pedicels 0·5–4 (8) cm. long, slender, terete, articulated near the apex. Calyx 5–6 mm. long, broadly campanulate to cupular, divided to about the middle; lobes triangular or triangular-ovate, mucronate, minutely ciliate, with indistinct median vein. Petals 7–10 mm. long. Staminal tube stellate-hairy. Fruit 8 × 10–12 mm., broadly cylindric with rounded base, widely and shallowly umbilicate. Mericarps usually c. 10, broadly keeled in apical half (hence fruit in upper half characteristically furrowed between the mericarps), obliquely truncate-convex at the apex with the dorsal angle subacute to shortly mucronate but not awned, when not yet ripe densely and shortly greyish-green, ultimately grey-brown, stellate-tomentose dorsally and on the apical dorsal area of the flat sides, not turning black. Seeds usually 3, c. 1·5 × 1·5 mm., usually greyish-brown, minutely verruculose-punctate.