Shrub or small tree 1–3 m tall, unarmed, all parts densely pubescent with abundant glandular, stellate and multi-angulate hairs (sessile glandular, sessile porrect stellate with long glandular central cell and multiseriate stalked multi-angulate hairs with glandular central cell), strongly odorous.  

Petiole 5–10 (-29) cm long; lamina 10–15 (-18) cm long, 10–12 (-17) cm wide, ovate acuminate, margin entire or slightly undulate, 6–7 principal lateral veins, base cordate; each leaf with two pseudo-stipular leaves in axil, 1.5–3 cm long, 1–3 cm wide, ovate, almost sessile or with petiole 1–3 mm long.  

Inflorescence at first terminal, soon displaced by an axillary shoot, peduncle 3–8 cm long to first fork, floral rachis forked further 2–3 times bearing 20 or more flowers; pedicel 5–7 mm long; calyx 7–9 mm long, deeply divided, the lobes ca 7 mm long, ovate-lanceolate; corolla ca 1 cm long, divided half its length, lobes ca 7 mm long, ovate-elliptic, densely pubescent outside, white; filaments 1.5–2 mm long a little dilated below, anther 4 mm long, oblong, apical pores introrse; ovary 3 mm long, oblong, densely pubescent, style 5 mm long, erect, stigma capitate greenish.  

Fruits numerous in an erect corymbose-cymose cluster; pedicels to 2 cm long; calyx lobes to 1 cm long, enlarged to cover base of fruit; berry ca 1 cm long, ovate, remaining pubescent with simple and stellate hairs, finally yellow to orange-yellow pulpy. Seeds ca 1.5 mm long, discoidal, light yellowish-brown, numerous.

Original distribution in north-western Argentina and southern Bolivia, along the Cordillera Central of Bolivia and eastern Andean slopes of Argentina.

 In Australia, only recorded thus far from heavily disturbed woodland forming part of stage 2 of the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Garden (Brisbane) development.

Qld: Moreton District: stage two of the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Garden, Brisbane, in heavily disturbed woodland, Apr. 1985, Swarbrick 8043 (AD, BRI).