Leaves opposite or subopposite; petiole 5–15(20) mm long; lamina leathery or slightly fleshy, dull green, slightly paler beneath, often tinged reddish when young, 4–14 × 2–6.5 cm, elliptic to ovate, bluntly pointed, cuneate at base, slightly decurrent; main lateral nerves 3–6(7) pairs, second to fourth (or fifth) rather strongly ascending, usually well spaced but sometimes arising nearly together at base.
Corolla red, the apical swelling usually green and darkening in ripe buds, but lobes green inside, 3–4 cm long; apical swelling of mature buds 2.5–3 mm across, 2.5 mm tall, subglobose to subhemispherical, not or slightly reduplicate, pentagonal; basal swelling 3–4 × 2–3 mm, ellipsoid.
Umbels 3–15, mostly at nodes below current leaves; peduncle 2–15 mm long; pedicels 3–6, 2–4 mm long; bract cup 0.5–1.5 mm long, with a triangular or bifid limb 0.5–3 mm long.
Style constriction 1–2 mm long; stigma 1–1.8 mm across, peltate to depressed-turbinate.
Twigs terete or elliptic in section, glabrous; bark smooth, grey, becoming powdery.
Berry ripening yellow, 9–10 × 6–9 mm, ellipsoid to obovoid-truncate.
Inner anther thecae 1–2 mm long; outer ones 0.5–1.5 mm long.
Receptacle 1–1.5 mm long.
Calyx (1)1.5–2 mm long.