Rather openly branched glab. shrub up to ± 1 m. tall; branchlets subterete. Lvs opp. on slender flattened petioles up to 5 mm. long. Lamina narrow-oblong to narrow-elliptic, thick, coriac.; veins us. distinct on lower surface; margins thickened, ± crenulate. Infl. of (5)-10-15-fld axillary racemose cymes; axis up to c. 5 cm. long, rather slender; pedicels opp. and decussate, 2-5 mm. long, very slender, ± tetragonous. Bracts obsolete. Receptacle-rim with minute teeth or truncate. Tepals ± 1-2 cm. long, orange-yellow to yellow, inflated above base, splitting almost to middle, linear-spathulate. Anthers very narrow-oblong; styles us. slightly > tepals, stigma large, capitate. Fr. turbinate to ± ovoid, 4-5 mm. long.