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Calyx tube 1.2 cm long; limb herbaceous, vaguely 2-lipped the longer lobe 0.7–1.2 cm long, tridentate at apex, ciliolate, the smaller lobe acute; limb-tube 4–5 mm long, puberulous within, with c. 6 ± thickened terete curved spreading appendages 1–1.5 cm long.
Small tree or shrub to 5 m tall, glabrous or young parts glabrescent, multistemmed with branches in whorls of 3, the flowering branchlets very short and rigid; bark smooth, white mottled greenish-grey.
A dense rounded shrub. It grows 5 m tall. The leaves are glossy and light green. The flowers are large and white and showy. The fruit are large and oval and shiny. They turn yellow as they ripen.
Corolla, white turning yellow, hypocrateriform; tube narrow, 5–6(7) cm long; lobes obovate-spathulate, c. 3 cm long, spreading, slightly concave.
Ovary 1-locular at base with 6 parietal placentas, 6-locular at apex; pollen presenter clavate, slightly exceeding the anthers, glabrous.
Fruit golden-yellow, woody, 4.5–5.5 cm long, 2–3.75 cm in diameter, narrowly ellipsoid or pear-shaped, usually crowned by the calyx limb.
Flowers subterminal, solitary, sessile, erect, 6-merous.
Seeds oblong, compressed, c. 4 mm long.
Anthers half-exserted.
