Slender, openly-branched shrub to 2 m, glabrous except staminodes. Branchlets angular-striate. Leaves obovate to broadly elliptic, concave, obtuse to slightly retuse, shortly uncinate, 5-18 mm long, 3-10 mm wide, sessile or almost so, those towards shoot apices often markedly smaller. Pedicel and hypanthium together 2-3 mm long. Calyx 0.2-0.5 mm long. Corolla 6-7 mm long, with a few hairs behind stamens. Stamens 5 mm long; filaments minutely papillose; staminodes 5 mm long, bifid. Style 3 mm long. Drupe ellipsoidal, 10-14 mm long, 8-9 mm wide, orange. Seed obovoid, compressed, 6-9 mm long.