Gaudium jingera

Shrub to 2 m high; bark on smaller stems smooth, sometimes shedding in stringy strips, on larger stems toward base of plant peeling in many papery layers. Young stems with a groove near base of petiole. Leaves elliptic to narrowly obovate, 6–10(–15) mm long, 2–3.5 mm wide, finally glabrous (rarely retaining some appressed silky hairs); apex acute, flat to incurved; margins flat to incurved. Flowers 6–10 mm diam.; hypanthium 2.5–3 mm long, silky; pedicel 2–3.5 mm long; sepals narrowly triangular, c. 1 mm long, glabrous to silky on outer surface, persisting (erect) on fruit; petals 3–4 mm long, white; ovary 3–5-locular, apex shortly silky all over. Fruit deciduous, hemispherical, 2–3 mm diam., silky to sparsely silky, splits developing below the rim of the hypanthium and extending almost to the pedicel in older fruit; seeds c. 1.5 mm long, often with loose cells along margins, with a reticulate surface pattern. Flowers Nov.–Jan.