Corolla green or greenish-yellow, 6–8 mm long, pubescent to tomentose above the calyx outside and more densely distally; limb 5–8 mm across; lobes 3–4 mm long, triangular or triangular-oblong, sub-obtuse to acuminate, ± reflexed or spreading.
Calyx membranous, 2–4 mm long, 3–5 mm wide, 5-angular; lobes 0.2–1.5(2) × 1.5–2.5 mm, broadly triangular or ovate-triangular, obtuse or sub-acute, spreading, with a few short hairs at the margins or only at the apex.
Branches subterete or angular, sulcate, often becoming hollow, often tomentose at first, soon becoming glabrous or ± pubescent mainly around the nodes with simple, short or long, eglandular or glandular hairs.
Fruit orange-yellow to red, glossy, 6–8(9) mm in diameter or 7 × 9 mm, globose or depressed-globose, said to be edible when ripe.
Flowers few–numerous; pedicels 6–13 mm long, thickened distally, pubescent to glabrous.
Shrub or small tree, ± spreading, up to 4(6) m; bark yellowish or brownish-green.
Stamen filaments 1–2 mm long, glabrous; anthers 1.5–2 mm long.
Ovary 2 mm long, conical; style 1–2 mm long, hairy.
Flowers white or yellowish fading to brown.
Disk red.
A shrub.