A small tree or shrub, often spiny. Shoots covered with peltate scales. Leaves 2-9 cm long, 0.8-3 cm broad, elliptic-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, dull green above, with peltate and stellate hairs, lower surface sometimes with ferruginous scales. Petiole 2-6 mm long. Flowers in axillary clusters of 2-4. Pedicel 3.5-6.5 mm long. Perianth tube 0.8-1 cm long, tubular; tepals 4, ovate, 2.5 mm long, yellow inside; anthers subsessile, c. 2 mm long; style 7-10 mm long, stellately hairy. Fruit 8-9 mm long, elliptic-ovoid, succulent, covered with scales when young; endocarp not hard, 8-ribbed, woolly within.