Corolla hypocrateriform; tube white, yellowish-or greenish-white, 4–7·6 mm. long, inside pubescent from 2·8–5·8 mm. above the base (or almost) to the apex; lobes sometimes different from the tube in colour, white, yellowish-or greenish-white, 0·8–1·8 mm. long, ovate to obovate, glabrous.
Leaves petiolate; petiole 5–32 mm. long, glabrous; lamina 2·5–23·5 x 1–7 cm., narrowly obovate to narrowly elliptic, acute to subacuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, glossy, glabrous, with 8–25 secondary veins on each side of the midrib.
Pistil 2·6-5·5 mm. long; carpels 1·1-1·7 mm. long, glabrous; disk ring-shaped, 0·4-1 mm. high, glabrous; style 2-4·6 mm. long, glabrous; clavuncula 0·6-1 mm. long, sometimes sparsely pubescent; stigma 0·1-0·2 mm. long, glabrous.
Stamens inserted 3-6·8 mm. above the base of the corolla-tube; filaments 0·2-0·7 mm. long; anthers 0·8-1·2 mm. long.
Fruits orange, yellowish-or reddish-orange; one or both carpels developing; carpels ellipsoid, 5-10 x 4-8 mm.
Bark grey-brown, smooth or rough, lenticellate.
Sepals 0·5–1·3 mm. long, triangular, glabrous.
Inflorescences many-flowered, fairly lax.
Peduncle 2·2–15·5 cm. long, glabrous.
Shrub or small tree, 0·50–9 m. high.
Pedicels 3–8 mm. long, glabrous.
Trunk up to 10 cm. in diam.
Seeds 3-8 x 2-6 x 2-5 mm.
Branches medium-green.