Red coffee-bush (Engl.)

An erect, bush Height: 2 to 3 meters high Leaves: Stipules narrowly triangular, almost filiform, about 1 mm long. Leaf blades about 15-25 x 7-11 mm. Leaves distichous, produced on branches or short shoots so that the whole structure resembles a compound leaf. Petioles transversely wrinkled. First pair of leaves orbicular or broadly spathulate. At the tenth leaf stage: leaf blade elliptic, about 10 x 5-6 mm, produced on short lateral shoots resembling compound leaves. Stipules linear, very small, about 1 mm long, soon turning brown. Flowers: Flowers small, less than 3 mm diam. at anthesis. Fruits: Fruits globular or depressed globular, about 5-10 mm diam., on very slender pedicels about 6-10 mm long. Fruits 5-lobed, wider than long.