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It is an erect shrub or tree. It grows 1-5 m high. The leaves are narrowly oval. They are 4-12 cm long by 3-7 cm wide. They are rough like sandpaper above and softly hairy underneath. The flowers are yellow or orange. They are 13-20 mm long. The fruit is warty. They are 12-16 mm long. They can have 4 lobes.
Leaf-lamina 3·5–12 × 2·5–7 cm., ovate-oblong or obovate-oblong to broadly elliptic, scabrid above with the nervation noticeably impressed, stellate-pubescent below with the nerves strongly reticulate; petiole up to 4 mm. long, rufous-hairy; stipules up to 5 mm. long, subulate and often falcate, pubescent.
Inflorescences all axillary; peduncles 0·3 mm. long, ferruginously hairy; pedicels similar, about 3 together, 1–3 mm. long; bracts 3–5 × 1·5–3 mm., lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, entire, pubescent on the back.
Petals yellow, slightly shorter than the sepals, narrowly elongate, with a basal nectariferous claw c. 1·5 mm. long setose-pubescent at the back circumvillous within and produced into a ledge above.
Androgynophore 1·5 mm. long, glabrous, not produced above the node, slightly lobed on the upper margin producing a shallow cup clasping the ovary.
Ovary ellipsoid, densely setose, entire or subentire; style up to 1·3 cm. long, setose-pubescent except at the apex; stigma-lobes 4, subulate.
Fruit entire or shallowly 2–4-lobed, c. 1·6 cm. in diam., sparsely setose and covered with warty rough protuberances.
Flower-buds oblong but slightly swollen at the base and usually slightly constricted above the swelling.
Sepals 14–20 × 2·5 mm., closely stellate-pubescent outside, glabrous and yellow inside.
Much-branched shrub or small tree; young branches coarsely and ferruginously hairy.
