Shrub or small tree 1.5-10 m tall, usually with root suckers, crown subglobular. Bark dark brown with horizontal lenticels, peeling. Perulate winter buds present. Young branchlets green, glabrous, becoming red-brown. Leaf blade elliptic to obovate, 3-8(-12) x 1.5-5(-8) cm, base cuneate, apex acute to acuminate, margin obtusely serrate or biserrate with glandular teeth, often with 2-4 glands towards the base; adaxially glabrous and shiny, abaxially glabrous or pubescent when young usually becoming glabrescent. Petiole 1-2(-3) cm long, usually eglandular, glabrous. Stipules linear to lanceolate, ca. 7 mm long with glandular serrate margins, caducous. Flowers 1.5-2.5 cm in diameter, in fascicles of 2-5, opening with the leaves. Pedicels 1.5-5 cm long, glabrous, with 1 to several leafy bracts at base. Inner bracts erect at flowering. Hypanthium campanulate to broadly campanulate, 5 mm long, glabrous. Sepals ca. 5 mm long, ovate, obtuse to acate at apex, glabrous, usually with glandular serrate margin. Petals white, obovate, 10-13 x 8-10 mm, apex usually emarginate. Stamens 20-35, filaments 6-10 mm long. Ovary glabrous; style 8-9 mm long, glabrous. Fruit a drupe, pale red, subglobose, 1.2-1.5 cm in diameter; mesocarp juicy, yellow, sour; endocarp ca. 7 mm diameter, globose, smooth, adnate to mesocarp.