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Leaves (2)4–18 × (0.5)2–9 cm, oblong, oblong-elliptic, obovate-oblong or lanceolate to oblanceolate, acuminate at the apex, cuneate to broadly rounded at the base, often drying an olive-or grey-green; glabrous above, almost glabrous to pubescent or hairy beneath particularly on the nerves; venation not markedly raised and closely reticulate; leaves subtending, or just beneath, lateral branches up to c. 3.5–4 cm in diameter mostly rounded-reniform, rounded to mucronulate at the apex.
It can be a shrub, woody creeper or small tree. It grows 9 m tall. It usually has many branches. The leaves are simple and entire and opposite. The leaf blade is 2-18 cm long by 1-9 cm wide. It has a rounded base and tapers to the tip. The flowers are in a dense group 2-4 cm wide. The flowers contain both sexes and have a strong sweet smell. The flowers are white or yellow. The fruit is an oval berry 7-15 mm long by 5-7 mm wide. It is red and usually has 2 seeds.
Fruit red (or purple-black, Swynnerton 1285), 7–15 × 5–7(12) mm, glabrescent to quite densely hairy, crowned with the persistent calyx lobes and sometimes drawn out into a beak rendering the fruit ± narrowly urceolate.
Shrub or small tree (1)1.8–9 m tall, usually much branched, the branches elongate, arched or sometimes subscandent or sometimes a true liane.
A fair-sized shrub with rusty-pubescent, usually spreading and more or less straggling branches
Stipules 5–7 mm long, triangular to triangular-lanceolate, glabrescent to densely pubescent.
Fragrant white subsessile flowers 1/2 in. long and usually several together in the axils
Flowers in two opposite clusters at each node, the combined inflorescence 2–3 cm wide.
Stems glabrescent to densely hairy or tomentose with grey to rust-coloured hairs.
Corolla white or yellowish; tube 3–5.5(10) mm long; lobes 3–7 × 1.5–2.5 mm.
Seeds 5.5–7 × 3.2–5.5 × 2–3.5 mm.
Calyx lobes 0.5–2 mm long.
Style 9–16(25) mm long.
Scarlet berries.
