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Leaves petiolate; lamina 3–6·2 × 1–2·6 cm., elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate (rarely obovate), obtuse to rounded and sometimes mucronate at the apex, with margin usually bluntly serrulate to subentire, cuneate or rarely rounded at the base, subcoriaceous, with main and subsidiary lateral nerves almost equally prominent, forming almost a right angle with the midrib, and very densely reticulate tertiary venation slightly prominent on both sides; petiole (1·5) 2–4 mm. long, slender.
Shrub or small tree 0·5–3 m. high, occasionally galled, with bark smooth, brown to whitish; branches ascending, greenish-brown and ridged at first, becoming purplish-brown to whitish and ± ridged or terete, often peeling, with numerous small ± raised lenticels.
Sepals 5–9 mm. long in flower, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, rounded, becoming red, 14–18 mm. long, convex and accrescent in fruit, eventually spreading and navicular.
Flowers solitary, terminating short axillary shoots, scented; pedicels 0·8–2 cm. long in fruit, articulated at the base.
Stamens with anthers 1–1·5 mm. long, 3/4 as long as or equalling the filaments, straight, dehiscing by apical pores.
Carpels 5, with styles united almost to the apex but with ends spreading or recurved; stigmas slightly capitate.
Petals bright yellow, sometimes dark-veined, 9–13 × 5–8 mm., obovate to subcircular, unguiculate.
Drupelets 10–11 × 8–9 mm., flattened-ovoid-cylindric, inserted near the base; embryo straight.
