Weak shrub to 50 cm high. Branchlets closely velutinous. Branches corky with age. Leaves: petiole 2–6 mm long, velutinous; lamina oblong-elliptic to ovate, 1.5–4 cm long, glabrous and dark green adaxially, velutinous abaxially. Inflorescences 3–7-flowered, much shorter than leaves, velutinous; peduncle c. 1 mm long; pedicels c. 1 mm long, to 3 mm in fruit. Sepals triangular, 1 mm long, velutinous. Petals thick, ovate, c. 3 mm long, glabrous adaxially, somewhat woolly abaxially. Stamens glabrous; filaments compressed-terete, attenuate, c. 1.2 mm long; anthers orbicular, 0.7 mm long. Ovary sparsely puberulous; style minute, glabrous; stigma very shortly 4-lobed. Cocci obtuse, c. 3.5 mm long. Seed c. 3 mm long, black.