Much branched shrub to 4 m tall; twigs drying dark with conspicuous whitish lenticels, compressed but soon terete. Leaves uniformly elliptical, broad, mostly obtuse at each end, to ca. 4 cm long and 3 cm wide, mucronate, the margins slightly revolute, the midvein prominent beneath drying reddish brown, the minor venation mostly obscure but sometimes somewhat more prominent above, 2 conspicuous longitudinal lines regularly flanking the midvein beneath, coriaceous, drying dark grey-green above and sometimes shiny, dull, reddish or chocolate brown beneath; petioles 1-3 mm long, drying dark; stipules bicostate but other-wise not striate, 1.2 mm long, deciduous or not, the narrow margin scarious. Inflorescence 1-to few-flowered; bracts and bractlets minute, scarious margined; pedicels 2-3 mm long, drying dark, the angles contrasting. Flowers small, the calyx ca. 2.5 mm long, divided halfway into acute sepals, fleshy, minutely striate, the margin not demarcated; petals white, 3.5 mm long, the lamina creased about /3 the way to the apex, the ventral appendages about 12/ as long as the upper portion, nectary not evident, the tube 1 mm long, as long as or slightly shorter than the ovary; filaments ca. 2 mm long; ovary ca. 1 mm long, ellipsoid, apically sinuate-truncate with 3 longitudinal sutures, the styles connate, free in the apical portion, the stigmas disciform, situated laterally at the style apex. Fruit a nrar-rowly ellipsoid, red, juicy drupe 10 mm long, deeply sulcate on drying.
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