Shrublet, up to 1 m high. Branchlets virgate. Leaves reflexed, narrowly ovate, 20-40 x 4-5 mm, petiolate. Inflorescence 1-3-flowered. Petals 2 mm long. Disc 5-lobed, covering ovary. Stamens 2 mm long, inserted at edge of disc. Fruit 6 mm in diameter, obovoid. Flowers yellow.
Shrublet up to 1 m. tall; branchlets virgate, green, very rarely with coiled tendrils, sparingly puberulous or glabrous.
Inflorescence 1–3-flowered; pedicels 3–5 mm. long, glabrous; bracts ovate, 1–2 mm. long, purplish-brown.
Ovary 2–3-locular; 1 ovule in each loculus; style 3-fid, with spreading branches.
Sepals 2·5–3 mm. long, ovate, glabrous; receptacle 1–1·5 mm. long.
Seeds 4·5 × 3·5 mm., plano-convex; testa shining black.
Stamens 2 mm. long, inserted at the edge of the disk.
Petals 2 mm. long, ovate, cucullate, unguiculate.
Disk 5-lobed, covering the ovary.
Fruit 6 mm. in diam., obovoid.