Small shrub 1–2 m tall and usually branching low down. Young stems brownish, pubescent or glabrescent. Older branches somewhat compressed, not becoming 4-angled and grooved. Leaf-blade elliptic-oblong, 20–50 × 10–28 mm, acute or rounded at the apex, rounded at the base; margins serrate, sparsely pubescent above or glabrous, nerves reticulate on both sides, slightly pubescent below; petiole 1–3 mm long, pubescent; stipules subulate, about 2.5 mm long, pubescent. Inflorescences bright yellow, all axillary; peduncles 3–6 mm long, pubescent; pedicels 2 or 3 together, 2–4 mm long, pubescent; basal bracts lanceolate-triangular, about 2 mm long, entire, pubescent. Buds oblong, somewhat sulcate. Sepals lorate, 6–8 × 1 mm, appressed pubescent outside, glabrous within. Petals narrowly oblong or lorate, 5–7 × 1.5 mm, yellow,with a basal nectariferous claw 1 mm long and circumvillous within. Androgynophore 1 mm long, glabrous, not extended above the node, rather cupular at the apex and clasping the ovary base. Ovary appressed pubescent, never lobed; style 8–9 mm long, glabrous; stigmas usually 4, subulate.

Fruit spherical about 8 mm in diameter, shining, reddish brown when mature. It has a compressed stem which is not 4-angled, unlobed drupes, and leaves which are slightly rough on both surfaces. The flowering time is in summer (December–March).