Many-stemmed suffrutex; stems unbranched, brownish, tufted from a woody underground rootstock, up to 1 m. tall, cylindric, striate, puberulous.
Inflorescences up to 3 cm. long, in the upper leaf-axils, the uppermost ones verticillate and leafless, with puberulous axis and branches.
Drupe black, shining, 7·5 × 8 mm., broadly obovate, truncate, much compressed.
Petals c. 2·5 × 1 mm., oblong, inflexed at the apex, sericeous outside.
Filaments 1·5 mm. long, anthers c. 0·75 mm. long.
Calyx-segments triangular, slightly puberulous.