Inflorescences borne at naked nodes or subtended by leaves, subsessile, 3–5-flowered; intermediate inflorescence branches occasionally present, but very condensed; single-flowered inflorescence branches 0–1 (or 0–1.5 in fruit) mm long, puberulous; bract and bracteoles cupular, c. 1 mm long, with 2 short lobes, often drying brownish, pubescent.
Corolla white or cream; tube 5.5–7.5 mm long, widening to c. 2 mm at top, glabrous but becoming pubescent towards the top outside; lobes 3.5–4 × 1–1.5(2) mm, acuminate-apiculate, pubescent except for bud-overlap-zone outside, glabrous above.
Calyx tube almost fully hidden by bracteolar cup; limb-tube 0.75–1.75 mm long, cylindrical, sometimes splitting, pubescent outside and inside; lobes to 1(1.5) mm long, narrowly triangular or apiculate.
Shrub or occasionally a small tree, (1) 1.5–5(7) m tall; young stems tan, velutinous; older stems with dark brown flaky bark.
Filaments c. 1 mm long; anthers medifixed, c. 2.5 mm long, mostly exserted but held erect, shortly apiculate, glabrous.
Style 6–8 mm long, glabrous; pollen presenter c. 1–1.5 mm long, shortly exserted; ovules 2–3 per placenta.
Seeds (1) 2–3 per locule, c. 4 mm, across, quarter-spherical, with linear hilar groove.
Fruit red, c. 7 mm in diameter, globose, crowned by persistent calyx limb.
Flowers (4)5(6)-merous, sweet-scented, sessile.