Shrub to 2.5 m high, but often stunted and wind-shorn. Leaves opposite or in whorls of 3, broad-elliptic to obovate, 10–45 mm long, 5–25 mm wide, thick, rigid, apex rounded and mucronate, rarely emarginate, base cuneate, margins recurved, upper surface shiny dark-green, lower surface paler, glabrous; petiole 1–5 mm long. Cymes axillary or terminal, to c. 8-flowered. Flowers on pedicels 1–3 mm long; sepals c. 2 mm long; corolla-tube c. 8 mm long, swollen near apex, orange, corolla-lobes c. 5 mm long, twisted, white. Drupes 1 or 2 per flower, each with 1 or 2 articles; articles ellipsoid to globose, 4–10 mm diam., usually 1-seeded, red to orange. Flowers spring–autumn.