Shrub or small tree 1–4 m high, sometimes sprawling with adventitious roots; branchlets usually zig-zag. Leaves alternate; petiole 1–3 (–4) mm long; lamina lanceolate to elliptic, (4.6–) 6.3–9.1 (–11.2) cm long, 1–2.1 (–3) cm wide, chartaceous, margin smooth, glands pellucid when fresh, blackish when dry, irregularly globular to lineate. Inflorescence axillary, subumbellate to 1 cm long, 4–8 flowers per inflorescence; peduncle 2–4 mm long; pedicels filiform, 5–10 mm long. Flowers 5-merous, 2–2.5 mm long; calyx tube 0.25–0.5 mm long, lobes broadly triangular, c. 0.5 mm long, 0.5–0.75 mm wide; corolla rotate, white to cream to pale pink, tube c. 0.5 mm long, lobes 1.5–2 (–2.5) mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, apex often weakly reflexed; stamens forming a cone around the style, anthers c. 1.5 mm long; ovary globose, 0.75–1 mm diam.; style c. 1.5 mm long; ovules uniseriate, 3 or 4. Fruit globular to depressed-globular, 5–6 mm diam., red. Seed globular, 4–5 mm diam.
This species has only been collected in, or associated with, rainforest usually at elevations above 800 m.
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