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Inflorescence terminating main or lateral shoots, cymose, appearing paniculate, few-to many-flowered, pedunculate, with branches quadrangular, ± rusty-tomentose.
Stems quadrangular at first, eventually terete, glabrous or ± densely rusty-tomentose when young but later always glabrous.
Petals up to 6 mm. long, elliptic to obovate, white or yellowish-white streaked with dark purple-red.
Sepals (2·5) 3–4 mm. long, elliptic to lanceolate, rusty-tomentose outside, usually glabrescent.
Shrub or small tree 1–5 m. high, much branched, with bark often peeling and exuding resin.
Stamens 5–6 per fascicle; filaments glabrous or sparsely villous.
Fasciclodes glabrous, spathulate, truncate or apiculate.
Berry crimson, c. 6 mm. in diam.
Seeds c. 3 mm. long.