Shrubs or trees, 1.5-3 m tall. Leaves, or most of them, 1-foliolate; petiole 2-5(-16) mm; petiolule 1-5 mm; leaflet blades oblong to lanceolate, 4-18 × 1.5-7 cm, papery, margin entire, apex acuminate. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, with flowers conglomerate or forming a short cyme, less than 1 cm. Sepals broadly ovate, less than 1 mm. Petals 5, white, ca. 4 mm. Stamens 10; filaments widest in ± their basal half. Ovary ovoid, becoming clavate; style extremely short. Fruit orange, broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, 1-1.2 × 0.8-1 cm. Fl. nearly year-round, fr. May-Dec.