A bushy shrub, 50-130 cm tall, with spreading branches. Leaves elliptical or oblong to oblanceolate, 2-4.5 cm x 1-1.8 cm, lower side paler, with 4-6 main lateral veins and dense reticulate venation, glands pale, sessile or petiolate. Inflorescence corymbose, 1-15-flowered; flowers 3-5 cm in diameter, sepals 4.5-10 mm x 1.5-3 mm, free, glands all pale, petals 20-30 mm x 12.5-15 mm, caducous, golden yellow to lemon yellow, glands pale, stamens in 5 fascicles, each with 25-35 stamens, caducous, ovary 5-celled, placentas 5, axile, styles 5, united almost to the apex, stigmas small. Fruit broadly ovoid or ovoid-conical to subglobose, 6-10 mm long. Seeds minute, cylindrical, curved, narrowly carinate, shallowly linear-reticulate to linear-foveolate.

Astringent and alterative (plant)

PROSEA (Plant Resources of South-East Asia) Foundation

Used to treat diarrhea and vomiting (plant); made into a paste, which is used to treat dog bites and bee stings (green twigs and leaves).