A small shrub, c. 2 m tall, branches spinescent. Leaves mostly towards the tip of branchlets, fascicled, 0.9-3 cm long, ovate-oblanceolate or elliptic, glabrous, entire, acute-subacute, petiole, c. 1 mm long; stipules c. 1.5 mm long. Flowers greenish-white, odoriferous, c. 12 mm long, 8-10 mm in diameter. Calyx-tube c. 1 mm long, teeth subulate, 1.5 mm long. Corolla funnel-shaped, tube c. 8 mm long, lobes 5, 4-5 mm long, acuminate. Anthers exserted, filaments short. Style long, filiform; stigmas spindle-shaped. Fruit 6-8 mm in diameter, globose, purple.