Shrubs or small trees to about 12 m. tall, the small branchlets conspicuously nodose, very finely appressed-sericeous when young. Leaves opposite, petiolate; blade oblong-or ovate-elliptic, acuminate, cuneate, about 7-14 cm. long and 2-6 cm. broad, with 3-5 pairs of ascending veins, firmly membranaceous, above opaque and essentially glabrous, beneath paler and minutely sericeous or tomentellous; petiole about 1-2 cm. long. Inflorescences terminal or subterminal, pedunculate, capituliform, involucrate; peduncle 1-2 cm. long, somewhat accrescent in fruit, minutely sericeous or tomentellous; flowering heads about 1 cm. in diameter, many-flowered, subtended by 2 pairs of deciduous, broadly ovate, sericeous bracts about 5 mm. long. Flowers minute, the ovary and hypanthium about 1 mm. long, densely and minutely sericeous, about as long as the subdeltoid calyx-lobes, the petals white, about 3 mm. long, reflexed at anthesis, the stamens somewhat shorter than the petals and widely exserted. Drupes deep red to purplish black, broadly oblong-ellipsoid, sparsely sericeous to glabrate, up to about 10 mm. long and 7 mm. thick.
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A tree. It can grow 5-23 m tall. The trunk is 40 cm across. The branches have nodes along them. The leaves are opposite and 6-15 cm long by 2-6 cm wide. The fruit are deep red to purplish black. They are 10 mm long by 7 mm wide.
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