A shrub 2-3 m high; branchlets spreading; young shoots, peduncles and fruit hispid with simple hairs mixed with jointed glandular hairs, subferruginous. Leaves alternate, shortly but distinctly petioled; petioles 1-2 mm long; leaf-blade ovate to broadly elliptic, 1-2.5 cm long and 0.6-1.3 cm broad, thinly coriaceous or firmly membranous, sparsely pilose with jointed glandular hairs; apex subacute, base rounded or obtuse. Flowers dioecious, female and functionally male, tetramerous or pentamerous, solitary, pale yellow; peduncle about 1 cm long. Calyx deeply lobed, pilose outside, pubescent within, strongly accrescent in fruit, lobes lanceolate, acute, about 3 mm long. Corolla urceolate; deeply lobed, glabrous except for the minutely ciliate margin, lobes rounded and recurved. Stamens usually 8 (or 10) inserted in a single row at the base of the corolla, anthers hairy, filaments short or stamens reduced to staminodes. Ovary hairy, 8-(10-) celled; style hairy, branches glabrous at the apex, 4(5) in number. Fruit very broadly oblong-ovate, about 1.3 cm long, sparsely glandular-pubescent with four longitudinal lines where the carpels join; calyx accrescent, loosely enclosing the fruits or reflexed, deeply lobed; lobes about 2 cm long, ovate-oblong, rather thin but stiff in texture, reddish-brown, many-nerved. Seeds about 1 cm long, 3-8, brown, oblong in outline, circumvented by a thin line, endosperm flinty, not ruminate.
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A multi-stemmed shrub 2-5 m in height. Bark: new growth with sticky glandular hairs. Leaves: spirally arranged, ovate to broadly elliptic, 1-2.5 x 0.5-1.5 cm, thinly leathery, with sparse glandular hairs; apex tapering; base rounded; margin entire; petiole 1-2 mm long. Flowers: pale yellow, solitary, on stalks about 1 cm long; floral parts in 4s (Sept.-Dec.). Fruit: ovoid, up to 1.5 cm long, with sparse glandular hairs, persistent calyx with 4 lobes as long as and usually enclosing the fruit, reddish brown (Jan.-Apr.). Seeds: 3-8, oblong, about 1 cm long, brown.
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