Shrub or small tree 1.5–3 (–6) m high; branchlets often with slight zig-zag. Leaves alternate to spirally arranged; petiole 0.5–7 (–10) mm long; lamina elliptic to obovate, 4.4–16.9 cm long, 1.1–4.7 cm wide, chartaceous, margin smooth and sometimes slightly recurved, glands red to black, globular to lineate, maybe pellucid when fresh. Inflorescence axillary, subumbellate to umbellate to 2 cm long, (5–) 12–25 flowers per inflorescence; peduncle 2–10 mm long; pedicels filiform, 5–12 mm long. Flowers 5-merous (rarely 6), 3–4 mm long; calyx tube 0.25–0.5 mm long, lobes triangular, 0.75–2 mm long; corolla rotate, white to cream to pale pink, tube c. 1 mm long, lobes to 3 mm long, c. 1 mm wide; stamens with anthers 1.5–2 mm long; ovary globose, 1–1.5 mm diam.; style 2–3 mm long, twisted near apex; ovules uniseriate, 2–4. Fruit globular to depressed-globular, 4–7 mm long, 5–7 mm wide, red. Seed depressed-globular, 4–5 × 5–6 mm.
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A shrub up to 3 m high. It spreads 1-1.5 m wide. The leaves are simple and 5-15 cm long by 1-2 cm wide. They are pale green. The flowers are small and white. They occur in a ball. These are crowded in a cluster on a slender stem. The fruit are 10-15 mm long. Fruit are bright red. They usually hang singly in the axils of leaves. There is one seed inside. The flesh is edible.
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