Shrub to 1 m high. Shoots and branchlets pubescent. Leaves often clustered; lamina elliptic or oblong-obovate, truncate, mucronate or obtuse, entire or ± crenulate, 2.5–6 cm long, 1–2.2 cm wide, scabrid, slightly viscid, rarely thick and velvety, pubescent to ± glabrous above, pubescent below; petiole 3–7 mm long. Flowers in small terminal racemes, rarely solitary; pedicels 2–7 mm long. Sepals 5–7, elliptic-ovate, acute, 3–5 mm long. Stamens 10–22; filaments 1–3.5 mm long; anthers to 2.5 mm long. Fruit 3-locular, obovoid or subglobose, inflated, red, with 3 or 4 minute knob-like triangular wings at upper angles, 8–10 mm long, 6–10 mm wide, rarely more, shortly puberulent; wings 0.5–1 mm long, 0.5–3 mm wide.