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Shrub, small tree, or climber, c. 1–2 m. high or higher, often scrambling. Branches sparsely rusty-puberulent at first, soon glabrous. Leaves petiolate; lamina 5–13.2 x 1.8–4 cm., oblong or elliptic-oblong, acute or shortly acuminate to rounded or slightly emarginate at the apex, cuneate and ± decurrent at the base, subcoriaceous, bright or bluish green, concolorous, glabrous on both sides when fully grown except sometimes in the region of the base of the midrib below, with lateral nerves and densely reticulate venation prominent on both surfaces but especially below; petiole (2) 3–6 mm. long, rusty-pubescent. Flowers terminal or extra-axillary, usually solitary; pedicels 1- c. 2 cm. long, densely fawn- or rusty-pubescent, stout, ± thickened upwards; bracteoles soon caducous. Sepals 3–5 mm. long, free to the base, covering the petals in bud and separating at anthesis, broadly ovate, ± obtuse, rugose, rusty-pubescent on the outside. Petals greenish, not fleshy, subequal or the outer rather longer, 7–13 mm. long, ovate to suborbicular, cucullate, often ± clawed, rugose, glabrous or tomentellous above, tomentellous below. Stamens 2–3 mm. long, linear, glabrous; connective-prolongation broadened, truncate. Carpels pubescent. Fruit on a pedicel 18–25 (34) mm. long; ripe carpels few (c. 5–10), 1–3-seeded, 0.8–1.5 x 0.6–1 cm., ovoid or shortly cylindric, often apiculate, slightly constricted between the seeds when dried, yellow or orange, glabrous or sparsely rusty-pubescent, finely rugose, with stipes 3–8 mm. long. Seeds c. 7–8.5 mm. long, ovoid or plano-ovoid, horizontal.