Slender shrub to 2 m high. Leaves shortly petiolate, broadly obovate, 4–10 mm long, slightly conduplicate, rounded at apex, papery, glabrous or sparsely stellate adaxially, tomentose abaxially. Flowers terminal to very short branchlets, solitary; pedicel 0–2 mm long. Sepals deltate, c. 0.5 mm long. Petals broadly elliptic, 5–6 mm long, yellow, rusty-stellate abaxially. Stamens 10, glabrous?; anthers c. 1 mm long, with terminal gland; connective glandular. Carpels 5, stellate-pilose; style glabrous; stigma subglobular, verrucose. Cocci beaked.