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Leaf blades drying greyish-green or brownish, 2–6.3(8) × 0.8–3(3.5) cm, elliptic or less often narrowly elliptic, obtuse in shape, acute or subacuminate at the apex, obtuse to acute at the base, papery to subcoriaceous, dull to shiny above, margins often crisped or undulate; lateral nerves in 5–7(8) main pairs, apparent on both surfaces; tertiary nerves somewhat apparent on both surfaces; domatia glabrescent to pubescent; petiole 1–5 mm long; stipules 2–7(8) mm long, deltoid at base, tapering to a subulate apex.
An evergreen shrub or small tree. It can grow to 5 m tall. The stems are hairy. The leaves are opposite and narrowly oval. They are 2-6 cm long. They are papery stiff and crowded together. The edges of the leaves are wavy. The flowers are white and tube shaped. They have short stalks and occur as one or 2 together in the axils of leaves. The fruit are orange red oval berries 1 cm long. They contain 2 pale brown seeds.
Flowers 5-merous, 1–2 per axil borne individually; inflorescence stalks up to 3 mm long, lower portion hidden by cupules or not, upper portion projecting beyond upper cupule or not; cupules 2, lower one often with foliar lobes up to 1 mm long, upper one ± truncate; scale-like bractlets sometimes present, very small.
Corolla white, sometimes reddish in bud; tube 2.5–6 mm long, 3.5–4 mm wide at throat; lobes 5–11 × 2.5–3.5 mm, obtuse to rounded.
Shrub or small tree, 0.5–4.5 m tall; very young branches covered with light-or greyish-brown bark, pubescent.
Fruit orange to red, 8–10 × 5.5–7 mm, glabrous to sparsely puberulous; whole stalk lengthening to 2–8 mm.
Seeds fawn-coloured to light brown, 5–7 × 4–5.5 mm.
Calyx limb shorter than disk, sometimes ciliate.
