Bertiera laxa Benth.

Shrub 1-2 m high, lateral branches horizontal, with glabrous or appressed pubescent tips. Leaves with petiole glabrous or appressed pubescent, 5-15 mm long; blade elongated narrowly ovate, coriaceous, glabrous to pubescent, base acute, apex with triangular acumen, sometimes slightly curved, 5-13 mm long, 10-15 cm wide, 20-35 cm long; 7-10 pairs of secondary veins. Dogmatia absent. Stipules broadly lanceolate to ovate, with apex very acute, 20-25 (35) x 7-11 mm, connate on 2-5 mm of itas length, glabrous to pubescent. Inflorescences terminal pendulous, up to 30 cm long, rachis hairy, more or less robust, with irregular opposite cymes. Inflorescence branch up to 4 cm long, bearing 2-7 flowers. Flowers sessile to sub-sessile. Calyx pale green, puberulent or appressed hairy, cup-shaped 2-4 mm long, with very short teeth or sub-truncated. Corolla pale green to white, glabrous to puberulous along the entire length of the tube, pubescence inside, lobes subulate, 1-2 mm long, tube 10-12 mm long. Anthers 2.5-4 mm long, with appendices. Style up to 10 mm in length and stigma about 5 mm long. Fruit globose, 7-12 mm, glabrous and ribbed longitudinally when dry, pale blue or purplish at maturity.