Evergreen shrub, hermaphrodite, up to 1 m in height, branched, with dense indumentum of branched, applied and white hairs. Leaves alternate, petiolate, with petiole up to 3 cm and leaf blade 9 \u00d7 7.5 cm, ovate, elliptic or oblanceolate, acute or subobtuse, cuneate at the base, green and glabrous or with some hairs along the midrib on the upper side and with white-greyish indumentum on the underside. Flowers solitary or more often geminate or in groups of up to 8 flowers, sessile or shortly pedicellate, yellowish-green; pedicel up to 3 mm with white, dense indumentum. Calyx 3-6 mm and campanulate during flowering, and up to 20 mm, urceolate and pubescent during fruiting, with 5 teeth 1.5-3 mm, linear or narrowly triangular. Corolla with 5 fused petals, 4.5-7.5 mm, campanulate, with tube 3-5 mm and 5 lobes 1.5-3.5 \u00d7 1-3 mm, densely pubescent on the external face. Stamens inserted almost at the base of the corolla tube, included, with filaments \u00b1 of the same length, glabrous. Style included. Fruit a berry of 5-8 mm, completely included in the calyx, spherical, green at first then reddish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-13413","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n