Shrub or small straggly tree 2-6 m tall, unarmed when young, often with spine tipped twigs when older. Leaves 1.8-4 cm long, opposite, elliptic to lanceolate. Flowers c. 1 cm across, white to pale red, fragrant, in large pyramidal branched clusters at end of twigs. Fruits 4-8 mm across, spherical with persistent style at top and shallow calyx at base.