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Leaves opposite or in whorls of 3, drying the bright yellow-green of an aluminium accumulator, mostly paler and often glaucous beneath; blades 2.5–16(21.5) × 0.8–8.5(12.5) cm, oblong, elliptic, oblong-elliptic or obovate to oblanceolate, very shortly acutely or obtusely acuminate or less often merely acute or rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base, sometimes quite coriaceous, glabrous to rather sparsely shortly pubescent on both surfaces, lateral nerves in 5–7 main pairs, tertiary nerves apparent and coarsely reticulate; domatia absent; petioles 3–10(20) mm long; stipules with a broad basal (usually sheath-like) part 2–3 mm long, hairy inside and along the margin, with a glabrous subulate lobe 3–12 mm long.
A small erect shrub. It grows 15-35 cm tall. The stems arises from a thick woody rootstock. The leaves are opposite or in rings of three. The leaves are 3-16 cm long by 1-9 cm wide. They are wedge shaped at the base. The flowering shoots are near the leaf axils. There can be 10 flowers in a group. The flowers have 5 parts. The fruit are yellowish green and turn red. They are 18-22 mm across.
Corolla greenish or greenish-white, the lobes white inside, thickened and often drying wrinkled; tube 3–5 mm long, pilose at the throat and with a ring of deflexed hairs set one third down from the top; lobes reflexed, 4–5 × 2 mm, narrowly triangular, appearing to have lateral margins thickening towards the apex in the dry state.
Inflorescences slightly to distinctly supra-axillary, divaricately cymose, usually 10–many-flowered, the axes mostly pubescent; peduncle 2–4.5 cm long, forming an acute angle with main stem; pedicels 1–11 mm long; bracts and bracteoles 3–8 mm long, linear-lanceolate.
Calyx tube 2–4 mm long, obconic, glabrous or pubescent; tubular part of limb0.5–2.5 mm long, drying distinctly wrinkled; lobes (1)2.5–9 mm long, oblong to linear-lanceolate or narrowly triangular, acute or subacute at the apex.
Pyrophytic erect subshrub (suffrutex), (7.5)15–35 cm tall; stem simple or slightly branched near the base, arising from a thick woody rootstock, glabrous, dark, wrinkled, with elongate lenticels.
Fruit yellowish-green becoming red, 18–22 mm in diameter, globose; calyx limb persistent.
Pollen presenter green, 1.5–2 × 1–2 mm, oblong-ellipsoid, dividing at the apex.
Pyrenes 11–14 × 8–9 × 8 mm, ellipsoid, with deep irregular longitudinal ridges.
Style 6–8.5 mm long.
Flowers 5(6)-merous.
