Evergreen shrub to c. 2 m high; stems generally dense and ± spreading, often spine-tipped; very young stems brownish tomentose; older stems brown and shiny. Lf petiole 2-15 mm long, channelled above, glabrate; blade 2-5.7 × 1-2.2 cm, oblanceolate to obovate, subtruncate to rounded at apex, sometimes ± mucronulate, cuneate at base, deep shining green and glabrous above, pale green and glabrous below; margins almost entire or shallowly crenate-serrate in distal ⅔. Corymbs c. 20-40 mm across; pedicels c. 5-15 mm long, shiny and with scattered hairs. Sepals rounded or very broadly ovate, c. 1 mm long, glabrous, or sometimes with a few hairs, shining, mucronulate. Petals ± suborbicular, 2.5-3.5 mm diam., rounded, white or almost so. Stamens slightly < petals. Fr. depressed-globose, 5-6 mm wide across top, red or orange-red, glossy.