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A shrub usually with many stems. It has underground stems. It grows 80 cm high. The branches have hairs when young. The bark is fairly smooth. The leaves are alternate in 4 rows with the upper 2 rows reduced in size. The leaves are 3-6 cm long by 1-2 cm wide. They are oval. The flowers are in spikes on the upper part of the branches in the axils of leaves. The flowers are yellow-brown. The petals have 3 lobes. The fruit are fleshy with a hard seed inside. The fruit are 3.5 cm long by 1.5 cm wide. They are narrowly oval and red. They are edible.
Flowers 4(5)-merous, bisexual, in ± robust and upright, yellowish-brown, ± tomentose spikes (in the axils of the leaves borne on upper part of the branches); bracts 1·5–5 mm. long or more, subterete or ± foliaceous, tomentose.
Rhizomatous, usually many-stemmed undershrub up to 0·8 m. high; branches tomentose when young and glabrescent with age (hairs short, slightly twisted, brownish-yellow); bark smooth or scarcely rough, brownish.
Petals 4 mm. long, 3-lobed (central lobe slender and undivided, lateral lobes broader and 2–3-laciniate), white.
Ovary 2 mm. long, (3)4-locular; styles (3)4, 2 mm. long, pyriform, narrowing towards the apex and reflexed.
Stamens with filaments ± 2 mm. long, subulate, slightly incurved; anthers 0·5 mm. long, broadly ellipsoid.
Drupe 3·5 x 1·5 cm., ellipsoid, narrowing towards both extremities, reddish, edible.
Calyx-lobes 2–3 mm. long, triangular to deltate, ± tomentose.
