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A bushy shrub. It grows 2 m tall. The twigs have hairs that fall off leaving a red coloured twig. The leaves are narrowly oval and up to 5 cm long by 2 cm wide. There are close teeth along the edge. There are yellow hairs underneath. The flowers are small and yellow. They occur in groups of 2-6. The fruit is round or two lobed.
Leaf-lamina 1·5–6 × 0·7–3 cm., elliptic, ovate-elliptic or lanceolate, acute at the apex, margin finely serrate, rounded at the base, minutely pubescent above or glabrous, very minutely reticulate and more densely pubescent below; petiole 1–2 mm. long, pubescent; stipules c. 3 mm. long, subulate, pubescent.
Petals yellow, about 1/3 the length of the sepals, oblong-lanceolate, basal nectariferous claw quite lacking or represented by a cluster of hairs, or present and then circumvillous inside with a minute ledge above and glabrous at the back.
Androgynophore without a basal glabrous portion if nectaries lacking and then ovary almost sessile on a pubescent cushion bearing the stamens, if nectaries present then basal glabrous portion 0·5–0·75 mm. long.
Inflorescences all axillary; peduncles up to 1 cm. long, slender, pubescent; pedicels similar, 2–3 together, up to 1 cm. long; bracts 3–4 mm. long, subulate, pubescent.
Fruit yellowish, deeply 2-lobed or 1-lobed by abortion, lobes c. 4 mm. in diam., globose, sparsely setulose-pubescent.
Shrub or tree up to 9 m. tall; young branchlets very slender, pubescent, soon becoming glabrous and plum-coloured.
Sepals 6 mm. long, oblong-elliptic, tomentellous on the back, yellow and glabrous inside.
Ovary 2-lobed and villous; style c. 3 mm. long, glabrous; stigma-lobes c. 4, flattened.
Flower-buds oblong or oblong-ovoid.
