Shrub, to 3 m tall; parts puberulent when young, glabrous in age. Petioles 5-9 mm long; blades oblong-elliptic to lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, acute to obtuse at base, 10-16 cm long, 2.5-5 cm wide. Flowers pale yellow, solitary in axils; pedicels 1.5-2.5 cm long, with a minute bracteole near apex; sepals 3, ovate, ca 8 mm long; petals valvate, the outer 3 narrowly oblong, ca 2 cm long, the inner 3 ovate, ca 1 cm long. Monocarps obliquely club-shaped, 3-4 cm long, apiculate at apex; seeds 2 per carpel, +/- elliptic, flat, shiny, orange, forcibly expelled by contraction of walls of monocarp (fide R. Foster). Croat 11158, 12569.