Shrub or small tree 0.6–3 m tall, sometimes bearing spine-like remains of axillary branches on the trunk; branchlets mostly densely yellow- or golden-ferruginous pubescent, becoming glabrous or ± entirely glabrous; bark greyish. Leaves paired, 1.5–4.5 × 1–2.5(3) cm, ovate, broadly elliptic or oblong, rounded to obtuse at the apex, rounded to cuneate at the base, densely to very densely yellow-velvety; petiole up to 4 mm long; stipules 2–3 mm long, triangular, with a filiform appendage up to 6 mm long. Inflorescences few- to many-flowered, velvety; peduncle up to 3 mm long; pedicels obsolete up to 2(3) mm long; bracts 2 × 1 mm, oblong. Calyx tube 1.5 mm long, glabrous to densely pubescent; lobes c. 10 × 1–3 mm, much longer than the corolla tube, linear to narrowly oblong or oblanceolate, glabrous to densely pubescent inside and out. Corolla tailed or only acuminate in bud; cream-coloured; tube c. 4 mm long, broadly funnel-shaped; lobes 4.5 × 2 mm, triangular, acuminate with appendages c. 1 mm long. Fruit orange-yellow, about 20 mm long, globose or ovoid, velvety or sparsely so when fully mature, crowned by the calyx lobes; pyrenes 10–20 mm long.
