Shrub, 0.5-1.5 m tall. All parts densely pubescent with soft, erect, dendritic hairs. Leaves petiolate, ovate to elliptic or lanceolate, entire, acute to obtuse, attenuate to truncate at base, hairy on both surfaces, densely so below, 2-12 x 1-10 cm. Flowers bisexual, pedicellate, solitary or in fascicles of 2-16, congested. Calyx campanulate, densely hairy outside; in fruit membranous, acuminate and enlarging up to 2.2 cm. Corolla yellowish green, 5-8 mm long, campanulate, lobes ovate-triangular, hairy outside, margin somewhat clavate-hairy. Stamens small, about 3 mm long. Ovary glabrous; stigma globose. Berry globose, 5-7 mm in diameter, shining red, enclosed by the calyx.