Small spreading much branched tree up to 9 m. tall, often with a rounded flattish crown. Young twigs usually densely hairy. Leaves disposed densely in fascicles along the older branchlets, singly on twigs of the current year, petiolate, simple; blade variable in shape and size, oblanceolate, obovate or obovate-elliptic, 1–5.2 cm. long, 0.4–3.3 cm. wide, apically obtuse to emarginate or more rarely acute, often fleshy, glabrous or more usually pubescent on both surfaces, the midrib prominent beneath; petiole up to 3(–7) mm. long. Inflorescence of usually 2–4 flowers fascicled in the axils of the clustered leaves; pedicels 3–10 mm. long, usually pubescent. Sepals 7–9 mm. long, rather obtuse, green, rather densely pubescent outside, less so within, or more rarely tomentellous only on the margin; receptacle cylindrical, 4–6.5 mm. long, brown; disk with a prominent laciniate free rim; torus elongating after anthesis. Petals 0. Stamens 23–45; filaments 10–18 mm. long, white. Ovary narrowly cylindrical, apparently glabrous. Fruits cylindrical, up to 5 cm. long, torulose, markedly constricted into globose sections, densely pubescent or rarely glabrous.