An erect shrub about 4 feet high, pale tawny-tomentose when young; branches erect-patent, supra-axillary, rather slender, rigid, densely clothed with short soft tomentum. Leaves 2 1/2–3 1/2 by 3/4–1 2/3 in. elliptical or oblong, obtuse or subacute at the apex, rounded or somewhat wedge-shaped at the base, rather scabridly hairy above, pale tawny or grey-white, softy or villous-silky beneath; petiole very short. Flowers in dense fascicles at the lower nodes of the branches, shortly pedicellate. Calyx 1/4– 1/3 in. long, densely silky tomentose, lobes subulate-lanceolate. Berry yellowish red, as in A. rubiginosus, nearly 1/2 in. long.