Subshrub or shrub 0.3–1 m. tall, mostly rhizomatous; stems mostly annual, simple or branched, densely ferruginous hairy when young, later often glabrous. Leaf-blades narrowly oblong-elliptic, oblanceolate, ovate or obovate, 1.5–18(–24) cm. long, 0.5–6(–12.5) cm. wide, rounded, acute, acuminate or even slightly emarginate at the apex, cuneate or rounded at the base, not coriaceous, glabrous or sparsely pubescent above, glaucous and mostly densely pubescent beneath; petioles channelled, 0.2–2 cm. long. Flowers solitary or rarely paired, extra-axillary; pedicels 0.8–2.5 cm. long, tomentose or pubescent; bracteoles small, oblong-ovate. Sepals ovate, triangular, 3–4 mm. long and wide, tomentose outside, glabrous inside. Petals green outside, yellow inside, fleshy or woody; outer broadly ovate, 0.8–1.2(–1.5) cm. long and wide, obtuse, concave, shortly densely adpressed pubescent outside; inner linear-oblong or narrowly oblong-elliptic, 10 mm. long, 1.5–2 mm. wide, glabrous. Stamens linear or clavate, 1.5–2 mm. long, the connective-prolongations obliquely capitate, finely papillate. Carpels cylindric, 1–1.5 mm. long, glabrescent; stigmas subclavate. Fruiting pedicels (1–) 1.5–4 cm. long, pubescent; fruit yellowish-brown, ovoid or globose, 1.7–3 cm. in diameter, reticulate, glabrescent. Seeds chestnut, ovoid to cylindrical, longitudinally flattened, 7–9 mm. long, 3–4 mm. wide; aril fibrillated.
