Shrub, deciduous, hermaphrodite, up to 3(6) m in height, upright and irregular in shape, with extended branches. Trunk generally well defined, long, narrow, with blackish-brown to reddish-brown bark, slightly fissured. Young branches reddish-brown or brown-purple, covered by a dense villous-tomentose indumentum, which usually disappears in the branches older than 1 year. Leaves alternate, solitary or grouped in brachyblasts (1.2-4.7 \u00d7 0.7-3.7 cm), suborbicular or elliptic, \u00b1 obtuse tip, mucronate or not, sometimes emarginate, attenuate-rounded at the base, margin entire or subentire, glabrous or glabrescent, deep green on the upper side and densely villous-tomentose and whitish on the underside. Petiole short (4-8 mm long), villous-tomentose. Inflorescence corymbiform, with 3-12 flowers, on a short tomentose peduncle (2-3 mm). Calyx tomentose, greenish-whitish, with 5 small triangular sepals, 1-2 mm long. Corolla with 5 white petals, glabrous, suborbicular, about 3 mm long. Stamens numerous (about 20), with yellow anthers. Styles 2, shorter than the stamens. Fruit a fleshy pome, obovate or oblong, about 5-12 mm long, crowned by the persistent calyx, green with whitish tomentum at first, and finally red, with subpersistent tomentum. Seeds 2, located on the upper end, partially visible without opening the fruit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12735","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n