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Shrub or small tree up to c. 10·5 m. high, with bark very smooth, mottled pale to dark grey and purplish-brown and flaking in thin sheets to reveal greenish-yellow patches; branches slender, spreading, reddish-purple at first, becoming dark grey.
Flowers (5) 12–20, in simple terminal erect (? or pendulous) racemes (1·5) 2·5–5 (6) cm. long in fruit; pedicels 1·5–2·3 cm. long in fruit, articulated at the base or in the lower 1/2.
Sepals 5–6 mm. long in flower, elliptic, rounded, becoming pink to red, 9–12 mm. long, slightly convex and reflexed in fruit.
Stamens with anthers 1·5–2 mm. long, about 1/2 as long as the filaments, straight, dehiscing by longitudinal slits.
Drupelets 6–9 × 4·6 mm., reniform, inserted centrally; embryo curved.
A glabrous shrub or small tree, flowering in mass about Feb.–Mar.
Carpels 5, with styles almost completely united; stigmas small.
Petals bright yellow, 8–10 × 4–5 mm., obovate to elliptic.
Calyx wine-red in fruit
Petals fugacious
