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Leaves usually ternate, mostly crowded on lateral shoots, deciduous, 1.5–10(14) × 1–6.5(9) cm, obovate, abruptly acuminate at the apex, strongly narrowed to the base, the actual base cuneate, rounded or minutely cordate, sparsely to densely often rather scabrid-pubescent above, sparsely to densely pubescent or velvety beneath but even then with venation visible as a reticulation with reduced indumentum, often rugose above; petioles 0–1.5 mm long; young stipules forming an ovoid hairy tip to the shoots 2–8 mm long, but soon splitting into 2 ovate parts.
A shrub or small tree. It grows 2-5 m high. It has many branches. The wood is hard. Young branches have hairs. The leaves are mostly crowded on side shoots. The leaves are 2-10 cm long by 1-7 cm wide. They are oval and taper to the tip. The leaves are hairy underneath. The flowers occur as one to three in the axils of the upper leaves. The fruit is 9-14 mm long by 9-14 mm wide. The seeds are reddish-brown.
Much-branched shrub or small tree 1.8–4.5(7) m tall, with ± smooth scaling grey bark, soon peeling to reveal a slightly rough glabrous surface yielding a resinous secretion; wood hard; young branchlets pubescent; hairs on young leaves, calyces etc. also with resinous secretion.
Calyx tube 2 mm long, ovoid, very densely spreading-pubescent with pale hairs; limb-tube 1.5–2.5 mm long, 5-winged by the decurrent lobes, pubescent; lobes leaf-like, 3–22 × 1–3.5 mm, oblong, held radially to the tube, pubescent.
Corolla white, sometimes becoming yellowish; tube narrow, 12–50 × 3.5–10 mm, sparsely to densely pubescent outside; lobes 7–45 × 4–12 mm, oblong-obovate or spathulate, sparsely pubescent outside.
Fruit 9–14 × 9–14 mm, globose or ellipsoid, obscurely ribbed, densely spreading pubescent, crowned with the persistent calyx limb.
Flowers 1–3, solitary in the upper axils of leafy shoots, 5–6-merous; pedicels 1–4 mm long, pubescent.
Seeds reddish-brown, 3.5–4 × 3 mm, reticulate.
