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A shrub which tends to scramble. It has many stems. It can be a small tree 6 m high. The bark is grey-brow. The branches often droop. The leaves are oblong to sword shaped. They are 6-19 cm long by 2.5-9 cm wide. They are bright green on both surfaces. The edges of the leaf are toothed or scalloped. The leaf stalk is 8 mm long and hairy. They flowers are white. They are 3-4 cm across. They occur in groups of 3-9 opposite the leaves. The sepals curve backwards except for the tip. The petals are frilled and crinkled. The fruit have 4 lobes. Each lobe is 10 mm across. They are shiny orange-red when mature.
Leaf-lamina 6–19 × 2·5–9 cm., oblong-lanceolate, subrhombic or narrowly obovate, acute or shortly acuminate at the apex, margin finely crenate-dentate, rounded or subcuneate at the base, finely pubescent above when young but soon glabrous, finely but more densely pubescent below and also eventually glabrous; petiole up to 0·8 cm. long, pubescent; stipules up to 1·4 cm. long, lanceolate-acuminate, with a dorsal keel, pubescent.
Petals white, up to 15 × 10 mm., ovate-lanceolate; lamina much wider than the nectariferous claw which is circumvillous and ledged above on the inside and up to 1·5 mm. long.
Inflorescences opposite the leaves, 3–9-flowered; peduncles up to 2 mm. long, pubescent; pedicels up to 15 mm. long, pubescent; bracts c. 2 mm. long, shortly triangular.
Sepals 1·5–2·2 × 0·35–0·5 cm., linear-oblong, hooded but not thickened at the apex, greenish-pubescent outside, white and glabrous inside.
Ovary 4-lobed, pubescent; style up to 10 mm. long, finely stellate-pubescent or glabrous except at the base; stigma-lobes broad.
Androgynophore with a lower glabrous portion up to 1·5 mm. long and an elongated pubescent upper portion up to 4·5 mm. long.
Shrub, sometimes scandent, up to 5 m. tall; branchlets rather pale or reddish-pubescent, soon becoming glabrous.
Fruit orange-red when ripe, c. 2 cm. in diam., 4-lobed, shining, glabrescent.
