Shrub or tree 1.5-14 m, trunk to ca. 20 cm diam. Leaves usually opposite; petiole to 2 cm long; blade thinly to firmly coriaceous, green, drying dark brown, elliptical or elliptic-lanceolate, sometimes oblanceolate, 4.5-15 x 2-4 (-6.4) cm, apex obtuse, acute or acuminate, base cuneate to rounded, sometimes somewhat hirtellous at first, glabrous at maturity, sometimes shining; ca. 5 lateral veins, scarcely prominent. Inflorescence axillary or terminal, erect, corymbiform or subumbellate, sometimes corymbose-paniculate, glabrous or nearly so, sometimes sparsely puberulous; peduncle slender; ultimate branches 0.2-0.5 mm wide, with 3-flowered umbel; pedicels slender, 3-6 x 0.5 mm; bracteoles 3, lanceolate, ca. 0.5-1 mm, often ferrugineous-puberulent; flowers puberulous when young, glabrous or glabrate when mature. Male perianth infundibuliform or infundibuliform-campanulate, 3.5-4 (-6.5) x 2 (-3.3) (at widest point near apex) mm, shortly 5-toothed, teeth obtuse, ciliate; stamens 7-8, filaments white, longer ones to 9.5 mm long, to 3 mm exserted, shorter ones ca. 7 mm long, anthers brown, ellipsoid, 0.5 mm; rudimentary pistil ca. 3.5 mm long, style puberulous. Female perianth green or white, with pink margin, slightly constricted above, narrowly ellipsoid, subinfundibuliform or salverform, total length (2-)3-5 mm, sparsely ferrugineous-puberulous when young, 5-toothed, teeth, up to 0.5 mm long, ciliate; pistil ca. 3 mm long, style capillary, distinctly exserted, stigma digitately fimbriate into 15-20 divisions. Anthocarp red, ellipsoid, 7-10 x 3.8-5 mm, apically coronulate.
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