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A shrub. It grows 0.6-1.8 m high. It loses its leaves. The bark is smooth. The leaf blade is 2-4 cm long by about 1 cm wide. They are narrowly oblong. The flowers occur singly on the end of short shoots. The fruit are fleshy. They are 9-11 mm long by 5-7 mm wide.
Dense shrub or shrublet 0·6–1·8 m. high, deciduous, with smooth bark; branches virgate, terete, purple-brown and densely whitish-lenticellate at first, becoming dark grey with small lenticels.
Flowers solitary, terminating short shoots in axils of previous year's leaves; pedicels 1–1·5 (1·7) cm. long in fruit, articulated 3–6 mm. from the base.
Sepals 8–9 mm. long in flower, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, rounded, becoming scarlet, 14–20 mm. long, flat and spreading in fruit.
Stamens with anthers c. 2·5 mm. long, about 3/4 as long to as long as the filaments, straight, dehiscing by apical pores.
Carpels 5, with styles united almost to the apex, the ends spreading or recurved; stigmas capitate.
Drupelets flattened-ovoid-cylindric, inserted near the base, 9–11 × 5–7 (8) mm.; embryo straight.
Petals bright yellow, 17–18 × 9–10 mm., obovate-rhombic, shortly unguiculate.
