Panicles terminal and axillary, congested, shorter than the leaves, with the axis and branches densely villous as also the subulate bracts.
A many-stemmed shrub up to 1·20 m. high; stems woody, cylindric, thick, densely spreading, yellowish-hairy.
Drupe black, shining, 5·5–7 × 7–9 mm., compressed-depressed, not or only a little emarginate.
Calyx-segments 1·5–2 mm. long, lanceolate-ovate, acute, villous outside.
Petals cream, oblong, appressed-hairy.