PLANTS: Dioecious shrub, the herbage more or less densely hairy. LEAVES: 4 at nodes, sharp. FLOWERS: in diffuse leafy panicles; corollas rotate. FRUIT: densely covered with white silky straight hairs. 2n = 22, 44, 88. REFERENCES: Dempster, Lauramay T. 1995. Rubiaceae. J. Ariz. – Nev. Sci. 29(l): 29.