Inflorescences 1·5–6 cm. long, spike-like, very compact, densely clustered above the leaf-scars along the leafless stems, with salmon-pink-stellate-tomentose axis.
Stems unbranched or somewhat branched, upright, salmon-pink, 60–90 cm. tall, cylindric, striate, stellate-tomentose to glabrescent.
Petals yellow flushed with red, c. 3·5 mm. long, oblong, obtuse, constricted at the base.
Drupe reddish, 9–10 × 6–7 × 3 mm., oblong, asymmetric, compressed.
Male flowers in bundles; pedicels 0–1·5 mm. long, tomentose.
Calyx-segments flushed with red, ovate, obtuse, tomentose.
A many-stemmed suffrutex.