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A shrub or small tree. It can grow 12 m tall. The leaves are simple and opposite. The leaf blade is 10-16 cm long by 3-7 cm wide. They are narrow and wedge shaped at the base and taper to the tip. The flowers are pink, purple or white. They have a scent. The fruit are round and green and turn red. They can be 1 cm across.
Inflorescences few-to many-flowered, 1.5–2 cm long, with one normal leaf at the node opposed by a filiform deciduous scale 0.6–1.5 cm long; peduncle very short, the branches with dense short deltoid bracteoles 1.5 mm long; pedicels 3–9(16) mm long, usually glabrous.
Corolla tube apricot, purple or white, c. 6 mm long, densely barbate with white hairs in the throat; lobes apricot, white, yellow or green, 5–8 × 3–4.5 mm, ovate, acuminate at the apex, the part exposed in the bud densely very finely white pubescent or glabrous.
Leaf blades glabrous, drying olive or grey-brown, 10–16(18) × 3–7 cm, elliptic, acuminate at the apex, ± cuneate at the base; petiole 4–8(10) mm long; stipules 3–5(9) mm long, 2–3(6) mm wide at the base, attenuate-subulate at the apex, glabrous.
Calyx glabrous, puberulous or pilose; tube 2 mm long; limb-tube 3–4(5) mm long, somewhat funnel-shaped, the margin minutely denticulate.
Ovary with 50–100 ovules; style purple, 1–1.2 cm long; pollen presenter 3–4 × 2 mm, ellipsoid, grooved.
Fruit green turning red, 6–8(10) mm in diameter, globose, mostly glabrous.
Shrub or much-branched tree 1.8–9(14) m high with glabrous branches.
Seeds yellowish, about 1.5 mm long, angular, compressed.
Flowers sweet-scented.
