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An erect shrub or tree. It grows 2-6 m high. The bark is grey and rough. The branches are flattened near the tips. The leaves are alternate and the leaflets are small. They are broadly sword shaped. They are 1-3 cm long by about 1.5 cm wide. The leaf tips are rounded and they taper to the base. The flowers are white to yellow-green. The fruit are bright red and fleshy. They are about 1 cm long. They are edible.
Petals white or yellowish-to greenish-white, c. 3 mm. long, oblong, rounded and crenulate to fimbriate at the apex, dorsally carinate, shortly and narrowly unguiculate; ligule 1–1·25 mm. long, entire, inserted 1/3–1/4 of the length above the base.
Long-styled flowers: stamens slightly unequal, the antisepalous 1·25 mm. and antipetalous 1·75 mm. long; stamen-cup as above; ovary as above; styles (2) 3, c. 2 mm. long, united for 2/3–3/4 their length (or rarely almost up to the stigmas).
Short-styled flowers: stamens equal, c. 1·5 mm. long; stamen-cup shorter than (or rarely equal to) the sepals, with slightly undulate margin; ovary c. 1 mm. long, ovoid-conic; styles (2) 3, c. 0·5 mm. long, united at the base.
Shrub or small tree, up to 6 m high. Leaves small, oblanceolate to obovate, 10-30 x 7-15 mm, pale green above, paler green below, thinly textured, margin entire. Flowers white, yellow or green.
Shrub or small tree (0·6) 1–6 (8) m. high, glabrous; branches numerous, erect, slender, smooth and only slightly flattened when young, soon terete; bark grey, verrucose.
Flowers solitary or paired (rarely in fascicles of 3–4) in the axils of fallen leaves; pedicels (3) 5–9 (11) mm. long, slender, angular.
Sepals 1–1·5 mm. long, ovate-triangular, acute, united for 1/4–1/2 of their length.
Drupe 8–10 mm. long, red, cylindric-ellipsoid or 3-gonal when dry.
