Shrub or small tree, up to 10(-13?) m high. Branches glabrous or the young parts sometimes sparsely pubescent. Leaves glabrous or rarely ciliate when very young, (ovate-)elliptic to lanceolate, (¾-)1½-5(-10) by (0.5-)1-2(-4.5) cm, chartaceous to coriaceous, base broadly to narrowly cuneate, sometimes slightly rounded, apex blunt to gradually long and slender acute-acuminate, sometimes aristulate; nerves 4-8 pairs; petiole (1.5-)2.5-5(-7) mm. Inflorescences axillary, glomerulous to laxly cymose, 0.75-2 cm long, up to c. 10-flowered; pedicels slender, 1.5-6 mm. Sepals mostly acute, 1-1.5 mm long, outside glabrous or minutely pubescent. Corolla 2-4 mm long, lobes blunt to acute, 1½-2.25 mm, glabrous (rarely outside papillose-tomentose). Stamens mostly shortly patent-hairy, filaments very short to ¾ mm, anthers ¾-1 2/3 mm, appendage of the connective up to about half as long. Ovary glabrous or sometimes hairy around the style base; style almost absent or up to c. 0.5 mm, glabrous or pubescent. Fruits globular to slightly ellipsoid, 3-5 mm ø, septifragal; suture inconspicuous, purple when ripe.
In and mainly along primary, rarely secondary forests, along river-banks, on grassy deforested slopes, and in low regrowth on peaty soil, mainly 1700-2600 m. Fl. (March, April) June-Dec., fr. June-Nov.
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