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| Distribution | Indigenous to Rapa, Tonga, Juan Fernández Islands, and Hawai`i.
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Habit
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Spreading shrubs up to 1 m tall; branches stiff, bark pale, glabrous.
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Leaves
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Leaves alternate on primary shoots, clustered on condensed lateral shoots, somewhat succulent, spatulate to linear-spatulate, 0.6-3.5 cm long, 0.2-0.8 cm wide, margins entire, apex rounded, tapering to slender base.
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Flowers
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Flowers solitary in the axils, pedicels 6-12 mm long; calyx campanulate, 4-lobed, 3-4 mm long, the lobes triangular; corolla whitish or bluish to pink, tubular, expanding to a 4-lobed limb, the tube 0.3-0.4 cm long, not exceeding calyx, the lobes ovate, 5-6 mm long, spreading reticulate-veined; stamens 4, glabrous.
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Fruit
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Berries red, succulent, globose, ca. 8 mm in diameter.
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Seeds
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Seeds numerous.
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Chromosomes
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2n = 24*
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