Deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub up to 4 m high; stems erect or slightly arching; young shoots densely brown-tomentose or villous but later becoming brownish grey and glabrate. Lvs crowded along stems or in fascicles, sometimes 2-ranked; petiole 2-3 mm long; blade ovate to rhombic, 13-25-(40) × 7-15-(25) mm, cuneate at base and mucronate at apex, thinly pilose above when young, later glabrous and ± shining, with veins sometimes somewhat impressed above, paler green to greyish green with indumentum of numerous long and ± appressed hairs below, often becoming sparse at maturity; margins slightly recurved and sometimes reddish; stipules lanceolate or triangular-lanceolate, densely pilose, acuminate. Fls 1-4-(5), in corymbs scattered along branches or on short shoots; peduncles brown-pilose, up to 5 mm long. Sepals c. 1-1.5 mm long, ± triangular, somewhat pilose, acuminate. Petals erect, c. 2-3 mm long, ± obovate, whitish to pale pink. Fr. obovoid to oblong-obovoid, 5-10 mm long, shining orange-red or scarlet.