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Leaf-lamina 2·5–9 × 1·2–4·8 cm., ovate-oblong or elliptic, apex rounded or acute, margins serrate, rounded or asymmetrically cordate at the base, sparsely stellate-pubescent above or glabrous, finely reticulate-rugose, older leaves somewhat shiny, closely appressed-whitish-tomentose between the nerves below, the nerves themselves brownish and sub-glabrous, except for tufts of scattered longer and darker hairs; petiole up to 7 mm. long, ferruginously pubescent; stipules c. 5 mm. long, subulate, coarsely brown-hirsute.
A shrub. It grows 2-5 m tall. The branches droop. The leaves are oblong. They are 8 cm long. The base is rounded or heart-shaped. The leaves have 3 veins from the base. The flowers are yellow. They are produced in the axils of leaves. The fruit are yellow and 7 mm across. They have two lobes. The fruit are edible.
Inflorescences all axillary, on coarsely brown-hairy peduncles up to 1·5 cm. long, 1 or sometimes 2–3 peduncles per axil; pedicels normally 3 per peduncle, c. 0·5 cm. long, coarsely brown-hairy; bracts 3–4 mm. long, linear-oblong to oblong, entire or bifid or trifid at the apex, tomentose.
Petals yellow, about half the length of the sepals, oblong to obovate, often 2-dentate at the apex, basal claw either with circumvillous nectary within, or often absent and replaced by a small tuft of hairs at the cuneate petal base.
Androgynophore, in specimens with nectaries, glabrous and 1 mm. long with a villous apex, in specimens with nectaries absent glabrous portion of androgynophore absent or almost so and ovary almost sessile on a villous cushion.
Shrub or small tree up to 8 m. tall; young branchlets ferruginously tomentose, becoming grey or brownish with paler lenticels.
Sepals up to 0·8 cm. long, linear-oblong, coarsely stellately hairy outside, yellow and glabrous within.
Ovary shallowly 2-lobed, villous; style c. 5 mm. long, glabrous; stigma with about 4 broad lobes.
Fruit yellowish, deeply 2-lobed or 1-lobed by abortion, each lobe c. 7 mm. in diam., pubescent.
Flower-buds oblong-ovoid.
