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Leaves deciduous; blades drying light green (or greenish-brown), 2.8–8.2 × 1.3–3.4 cm, oblanceolate to narrowly obovate or less often elliptic, obtuse to rounded or subacuminate and often shortly apiculate at apex, cuneate at base, papery, finely pubescent to glabrescent above, finely pubescent beneath; lateral nerves in 4–5(6) main pairs; domatia absent; petioles 1–5 mm long, densely pubescent; stipules 3–5 mm long, triangular-acuminate, pubescent outside, becoming scarious and tending to reflex when mature.
Scrambling shrub or small tree 0.6–4 m tall with whippy branches and said to be spinose at base (fide White 1952); young stems densely pubescent, covered with light tan to mid-brown bark; short patent lateral branches straight or somewhat upwardly curved.
Corolla cream-coloured to white (or ?brownish-yellow), glabrous outside; tube 2.3–5.75 mm long, cylindrical, c. 0.5–0.8 mm wide at top, sparsely hairy at throat; lobes 2–5 × c. 1.25 mm, narrowly oblong, obtuse.
Calyx densely pubescent; tube c. 1 mm long; limb-tube 0.75–1 mm long; lobes drying brown and somewhat chaffy, 0.9–1.5 × 75–0.9 mm, oblong-ovate, obtuse to rounded, sometimes slightly overlapped.
Seeds 2 per fruit, dark brown, ± hemispherical, 4–5 mm in diameter with large circular cavity, surface smooth to naked eye.
Fruit black when ripe, 6–7 mm in diameter, crowned by persistent calyx limb.
Placenta ± ovate with 1 ovule impressed near the centre.
Flowers not scented.
