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Leaves usually paired but sometimes in whorls of 3; blades 2–5.5(9) × 0.8–2.5(4) cm, narrowly elliptic, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, obtuse to narrowly acuminate at the apex, the tip itself usually obtuse, cuneate or rarely rounded at the base, mostly densely pubescent and often ± velvety beneath when young, or persistently so in one variant, or entirely glabrous save for domatia, or only sparsely pubescent; petiole 0.5–2 mm long; stipule bases 1–1.5 mm long, connate, truncate, subscarious, pubescent to glabrescent outside, densely villous inside, with a subfleshy deciduous often ± reflexed appendage 2.5–4(6) mm long.
A shrub or small tree. It can grow 7.5 m tall. It is densely branched. They bark is brown or whitish-grey. Young branches can be slightly hairy The branches are often in rings of three. The leaves are on pairs or rings of three. They are narrowly oval and 2-6 cm long by 1-2.5 cm wide. They are wedge shaped or rounded at the base. The flowering shoots have 2-4 flowers. The fruit are black and a flattened round shape. They are about 1 cm across.
Corolla obtuse to distinctly but shortly acuminate in bud; white, cream, yellowish or greenish, glabrous or very sparsely to densely pubescent; tube 1.5–2 mm long, ± campanulate with a ring of deflexed hairs inside; lobes (1.5)2.5–3.5 × 1–1.5 mm oblong, glabrous to densely pubescent outside, ± papillate inside, acute or with short subulate appendage 0.5–0.75 mm long.
Inflorescences (1)2–4(7)-flowered, not subumbellate but with secondary branches or rhachis usually shortly developed; peduncle glabrous to pubescent, obsolete or up to 3(7) mm long; bracts scarious, forming a cup c. 1 mm long, glabrous to pubescent; pedicels 2–9 mm long, glabrous to pubescent, sometimes up to 14–20 mm long in fruit.
Densely branched shrub or small tree 1.8–7.5 m tall, or sometimes scrambling; bark rather rough grey, brown or whitish-grey; branchlets sparsely to densely pubescent on young parts, often with ± yellowish hairs, persistent or becoming glabrous; branches often in whorls of 3; spines frequently present, solitary, 7–13 mm long.
Calyx tube 1–1.5 mm long, the limb truncate to shortly toothed, 0.25–0.5 mm long or rarely the calyx lobes more developed, 0.5–2 mm long.
Fruit black, 6–8.1(9) × 8.5–9.5 mm, subglobose, usually deeply lobed in dry state, with 1–3(5) pyrenes, glabrous.
Pyrenes about 10 × 6 mm, rounded reniform or oblong-segmentoid with notch just above the middle.
Pollen presenter coroniform, 3(5)-lobed.
Style 2–2.5(4) mm long.
Ovary 2(5)-locular.
