Shrubs, evergreen, erect or divaricate, to 4 m tall. Spines absent or on old branchlets; young branches densely scaly. Petiole yellow-brown, 5-7 mm; leaf blade lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, or narrowly oblong, 5-15 × 1.5-8 cm, leathery, abaxially densely silvery scaly, adaxially scaly when young, glabrescent, lateral veins 8-12 per side of midrib, inconspicuous abaxially, conspicuous adaxially, base rounded, margin entire, revolute, apex acuminate. Flowers often 3-5 in axils. Pedicel 3-5 mm, slender. Flowers yellowish white, outside densely silvery scaly. Calyx tube tubular, 5-6 mm, abruptly constricted above ovary; lobes broadly triangular, 2.5-3 mm, inside sparsely white stellate, apex acuminate. Filaments very short or absent; anthers oblong, ca. 1.5 mm. Style erect, glabrous or sparsely stellate-hairy; stigma 2-3 mm. Drupe red, ellipsoid, 1.2-1.5 cm × 5-6 mm, densely scaly. Fl. Aug-Oct, fr. Apr-May.
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An evergreen shrub. It grows 4 m high. The branches have a greyish covering. The leaves are almost leathery and sword shaped. They are 3-9 cm long by 1-3 cm wide. They taper to the tip and are rounded at the base. They are shiny above and have dense brown scales underneath. The flowers occur singly or in groups. They are tube shaped and 7-10 mm long by 2-3 mm wide. There are 4 lobes at the end. The fruit is oblong and 1-2 m long by 6-7 mm wide. They are red and have brown scales.
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