Shrub or small tree or semi-scandent with purplish branches; young branchlets coarsely ferruginously pubescent. Leaf-lamina up to 12 × 5·5 cm., elliptic-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate at the apex, margin finely serrate with glands on the serratures, broadly cuneate or truncate and sometimes oblique at the base, glabrous above, sparsely stellate-pubescent below; nerves fairly prominent on both sides; petiole up to 7·5 mm. long, hispid-pubescent; stipules 0·5 mm. long, linear, pubescent outside, caducous. Inflorescences terminal or leaf-opposed, 2–5-flowered; peduncles up to 15 mm. long, pubescent; pedicels similar, c. 1 cm. long; bracts up to 4 mm. long, linear or lanceolate-triangular, pubescent on the back, entire. Flower-buds oblong. Sepals 1·2–2 cm. long, linear-oblong, greenish or ferruginously pubescent outside with a dense short stellate tomentum interspersed with longer fasciculate hairs, glabrous and white inside. Petals white, 5–9 mm. long, narrowly triangular; lamina not wider than the nectariferous claw and not more than twice its length; claw circumvillous within and ledged above. Androgynophore up to 1·5 mm. long, glabrous, not produced above. Ovary 4-lobed, villous; stigma-lobes broad. Fruit reddish when ripe, up to 2.3 cm. in diam., 4-lobed, sparsely hispid or glabrous.