Shrub 1–3 m high or small tree to 5 m high; twigs often angular. Leaves: petiole 2–3 (–4) mm long; lamina obovate to oblanceolate, occasionally lanceolate, tapering to an acuminate apex, 7.8–19.3 cm long, 2.3–5.6 cm wide, margin irregularly serrulate to crenulate, glands pellucid globular and lineate, c. 6–8 per areole. Inflorescence 2–7 (–8) cm long, 2–3 cm wide; pedicels 3–7 (–9) mm long, with dark-coloured lineate gland, elongating and curving as fruit matures. Flowers c. 3 mm long, calyx c. 1 mm long; corolla 2.5–3 mm long, cream, glands concentrated into the median area of the lobes, drying black; stamens: filaments 1 mm long, anthers 2 mm long, awl-shaped; ovary c. 1 mm diam., style 2.5–3 mm long, glands dark; ovules 4 or 5. Fruit depressed-globular, 6–7 mm long, c. 8 mm wide, dark pink to red.