Plants 2-6(-10) dm, forming small to extensive colonies; branches erect; young twigs pale green, densely hairy (hairs relatively short, curled). Leaves: petiole 2-3 mm; blade glaucous abaxially, dull green to yellowish green adaxially, ovate to oblong, 2.5-4 × 1-2 cm, subcoriaceous, base cuneate, margins entire, apex rounded to obtuse, surfaces glabrous or sparsely short-hairy (longer hairs ca. 0.1 mm) and sessile-glandular abaxially. Inflorescences drooping, 2-4-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary, bracteate, 1-2.5 cm, glabrous or pilose; bracts early-deciduous, leaflike or not, 5-6 mm, shorter than pedicels, glabrous, sessile-glandular. Pedicels 8-15(-20) mm, glabrous, sessile-glandular; bracteoles 1-2, 1-2.5 mm. Flowers: sepals 5, (glaucous), 1-1.2 mm, glabrous, sessile-glandular or not; petals 5, corolla greenish white, campanulate-conic, 3-5 mm, lobes deltate, ca. 1 mm; filaments 0.5-1 mm, ciliate; anthers included (tips barely exserted), 2.5 mm, thecae not divergent distally; ovary glabrous. Drupes juicy, sweet, dark blue, sometimes black, rarely white, glaucous, 5-8 mm diam., glabrous. Seeds 1.5 mm.
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