Shrub, 3-5 m. Branches terete; bark dark, peeling off. Branchlets verruculose by the thickened, cushion-like leaf-scars, tips brown when dry, completely glabrous. Leaves linear, elongate, apex obtuse, with a distinct blackish and protruding terminal gland, base attenuate into the petiole, coriaceous, glabrous, entire, shining above, (3-)5-7.5 cm by 1.5-3 mm, midrib impressed above the entire length, nerves indistinct; petiole rugose, 1-2 mm, nearly as thick as the lamina. Flowers 3-5(-6) per fascicle. Pedicels only seen in the immature fruit, then 4-6(-7) mm, laxly shortly patent-hairy, basal bracts 2 or 3, minute, scarious. Bracteoles broad-ovate, ciliolate, 1 mm. Calyx 3 mm in immature fruit, minutely verruculose dorsally, lobes ovate, obtuse, ciliolate, c. 1.5 mm. Developed ovary glabrous; style 2 mm. Immature fruit green or with purplish tinge, c. 3.5 mm ø. Mature fruit said to be finally dark blue.
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