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A dense erect shrub or small tree up to 5 m in height. Bark: dark grey, mottled; young branchlets and new leaves with tawny hairs. Leaves: spirally arranged, small, narrowly to broadly elliptic, 15-30 x 4-10 mm, leathery, finely hairy, glossy dark green above, pale green and shiny below, lateral veins hardly visible; apex and base tapering; margin entire, flat; petiole barely more than 1 mm long or absent. Flowers: white, up to 6 mm long, the petals curling backwards, in 2-to 5-flowered sprays up to 15 mm long, axillary, solitary, pendulous, in the axils of bracts which fall early (Oct.-Dec.). Fruit: ovoid to almost round, finely glandular when young, about 10 mm in diameter, reddish to purplish, persistent calyx with 5 small narrow lobes hardly curling backwards, but not clasping the berry (Jan.-Mar.).
Evergreen shrub, 0.6-1.8 m high. Leaves alternate, sessile, elliptic, coriaceous, smooth and greenish above, finely wrinkled and brownish below, pubescent when young, margins entire. Bracts early deciduous, minute to well developed, lanceolate to subulate. Flowers in 2-5-flowered racemes or solitary and axillary; stamens 10, staminodes in female flower; ovary 4-9-celled, one ovule in each cell. Fruit oblong to subglobose, purple or reddish. Seed oblong, solitary, divided obliquely by a thin line.
A shrub or small tree. It grows 5 m tall. The bark is dark grey and mottled. The new leaves are hairy. The leaves are arranged in spirals. They are 15-30 mm long by 4-10 mm wide. The flowers are white. The fruit is almost round and 1 cm across. They are red to purple.
Dioecious shrub to 2 m. Leaves sessile, elliptic. Flowers 1-few in axillary racemes, cream-coloured. Fruits finely glandular when young, purple or reddish, calyx not accrescent.
