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A straggling shrub or small tree. It grows 3-4 m tall. The dark is dark grey-brown. The leaves are oblong and 12 cm long by 5.5 cm wide. They are dark green on both surfaces. They have hairs on the upper surface. The edges have teeth. The flowers are white to pale yellow. They are 3 cm across. There are 2-5 flowers in a group opposite the leaves. The petals are small and greenish. The fruit have 4 lobes. Each lobe is about 10 mm across. They are reddish when mature. They are slightly hairy. The fruit are edible.
Leaf-lamina up to 12 × 5·5 cm., elliptic-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate at the apex, margin finely serrate with glands on the serratures, broadly cuneate or truncate and sometimes oblique at the base, glabrous above, sparsely stellate-pubescent below; nerves fairly prominent on both sides; petiole up to 7·5 mm. long, hispid-pubescent; stipules 0·5 mm. long, linear, pubescent outside, caducous.
Inflorescences terminal or leaf-opposed, 2–5-flowered; peduncles up to 15 mm. long, pubescent; pedicels similar, c. 1 cm. long; bracts up to 4 mm. long, linear or lanceolate-triangular, pubescent on the back, entire.
Sepals 1·2–2 cm. long, linear-oblong, greenish or ferruginously pubescent outside with a dense short stellate tomentum interspersed with longer fasciculate hairs, glabrous and white inside.
Petals white, 5–9 mm. long, narrowly triangular; lamina not wider than the nectariferous claw and not more than twice its length; claw circumvillous within and ledged above.
Shrub or small tree or semi-scandent with purplish branches; young branchlets coarsely ferruginously pubescent.
Fruit reddish when ripe, up to 2.3 cm. in diam., 4-lobed, sparsely hispid or glabrous.
Androgynophore up to 1·5 mm. long, glabrous, not produced above.
Ovary 4-lobed, villous; stigma-lobes broad.
Flower-buds oblong.
