Shrubs, deciduous, erect, 1-3 m tall. Spines absent; young branches, leaves, and flowers with dense yellow stellate hairs. Petiole 2-5 mm, with yellow villi; leaf blade abaxially gray-white, adaxially drying green, blades at base of new shoots small, 1-2 × ca. 0.5 cm, blades at upper parts oblanceolate or obovate, 4-9 × 1-4 cm, papery, abaxially with scales overlapping, silvery white, regularly deeply fimbriate, mixed with fewer larger stellate hairs/very deeply divided scales, adaxially with very few stellate scales on base of midrib, lateral veins 6-8 per side of midrib, base equilateral or cuneate, margin entire, apex acute or obtuse. Flowers solitary in axils of new shoots. Pedicel 3-5 mm; fruiting pedicel thicker toward apex, 3-4 cm. Flowers yellowish white, with dense yellowish villi. Calyx tube tubular, ca. 5 mm, slender; lobes ovate-triangular, 3-4 mm, inside with sparse white stellate hairs, apex acute. Filaments very short, ca. 0.5 mm; anthers oblong, ca. 1 mm. Style erect, yellow, glabrous, not exserted beyond stamens. Drupe red, ellipsoid or oblong, ca. 1 cm × 2-3 mm. Fl. Feb-Mar, fr. Apr-May.
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A shrub. It loses its leaves during the year. It grows 2 m high. It has a dense covering of yellow hairs. The leaves are oblong and 4-9 cm long by 1-4 cm wide. It narrow to an abrupt tip and the base is rounded. The flowers are small and pale yellow. They occur singly in the axils of leaves. The fruit is fleshy and red. It is oblong and 1 cm long. It ahs silver scales.
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