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Leaves 0.6-2.3(4) \u00d7 0.6-2.3 cm, alternate, with very small stipules, promptly caducous and petiole up to 1.2(3) cm, hairy, with coriaceous leaf blade, bipartite into 2 ovate or semicircular lobes almost to the base, with 3 veins, a greyish-green, glabrous on the upper side and slightly pubescent on the underside. Inflorescences racemiform, arranged in terminal clusters or opposite to the leaves, erect, with 10-25 flowers, pedicellate, with pedicels up to 12 mm, pubescent. Calyx campanulate, with 5 sepals <em>c. <\/em>10 mm, spatulate, fused at the base into a basal tube of 3-4 mm, \u00b1 reflexed at anthesis even though some remain connected at the tip. Corolla with 5 petals of 15-20 mm, spatulate or linear-lanceolate, white, whitish-yellow or pink, glabrous, arched-reflexed at anthesis. Stamens 10, free, all fertile, <em>c. <\/em>10 mm, with anthers <em>c. <\/em>3 mm, linear-oblong, sagittate, hairy, and filament hairy at the base. Ovary glabrous. Pod (5)8-11 \u00d7 0.8-1 cm, pendulous, linear-oblong, often curved or spiral, compressed, rounded at the apex and attenuated at the base, densely reticulate, \u00b1 coriaceous and with pronounced seeds, reddish-brown or nearly black at maturity, glabrous, dehiscent with 4-10 seeds separated by septa. 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