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A shrub. It grows 1-2 m tall. It has several branches spreading from the base. The leaf blade is 2-8 cm long by 2-4 cm wide. They are broadly oval. They taper to the tip and have teeth around the edge. The flowers are in the axils of leaves. The petals are yellow. The fruit are orange. They are 1.5 cm across. The fruit are edible.
Inflorescences all axillary; peduncles c. 1 cm. long, tomentellous; pedicels normally 3 together, c. 2 mm. long; bracts c. 3 mm. long, normally bifid or trifid 1/3-or 1/2-way, greyish-tomentellous.
Petals bright yellow, slightly shorter than the sepals, linear, often bifid at the apex, widening into a nectariferous base which is circumvillous within ledged above and tomentellous on the back.
Ovary ovoid, not lobed, setose-pubescent; style 5–6 mm. long, pubescent at the base; stigma-lobes c. 4, short, subulate.
Androgynophore with a glabrous base, c. 1 mm. long, extended above into a densely pubescent column up to 2 mm. long.
Sepals greenish-grey, up to 1·2 cm. long, linear-oblong, tomentellous on the back, glabrous within.
Shrub with branches spreading from the base, up to 1 m. tall; young branches greyish-tomentose.
Fruit up to 1 cm. in diam., never lobed, globose, shortly and sparsely stellate-pubescent.
Flower-buds oblong.
