Bushy glab. shrub up to 1 m. or more diam., attached to host by a ball-like mass up to c. 2 cm. diam., or (more us.) by a stout branch elongate along host. Branches terete; branchlets subancipital. Lvs coriac., opp., on stout petioles up to c. 10 mm. long. Lamina ovate- to elliptic- to obovate-oblong, thick, entire or obscurely crenulate, 2-8 × 1-3 cm. Panicles 10-30 mm. diam.; peduncles and pedicels slender. Fls ± 2.5 mm. long; outer tepals reduced to a truncate rim; inner tepals greenish yellow, 4, narrow-oblong, free to base; anthers basifixed: style short, stout, twisted at middle; stigma lateral, capitate. Fr. bright yellow, ± ellipsoid, viscid, ± 5-8 mm. long.