Shrub to 5 m tall; twigs reddish brown, soon terete and greyish, lenticels prominent on newly emerged growth. Leaves often on short shoots, elliptic, obovate or spathulate, mostly broadest above the middle, apically obtuse, rounded or emarginate, basally acute or obtuse, the margins sometimes sub-revolute, the midvein prominent beneath, the minor venation reticulate, mostly not conspicuous, coriaceous to chartaceous, mostly firm, sometimes shiny above; petioles short, 1-3 mm long, slender; stipules bicostate but otherwise not striate, persistent. Inflorescences often on short shoots, several slowered; the bracts small, inconspicuous; pedicels 4-6 mm long, striate but not especially angled. Flowers with the calyx divided about halfway down into deltoid, 1-mm-long sepals, the costa evidently continuous from the upper portion of the pedicel; petals (ex Schulz) white, 4.5-5 mm long, ventrally appendaged; filament tube slightly shorter than the sepals, about as long as the ovary; styles somewhat ex-panded. Fruit a red, juicy drupe, ellipsoid, ca. 8 mm long, drying sulcate.
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A shrub or tree. The fruit are purple to bright red.
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