Inflorescences many-flowered, contracted trichotomous, c. 3 cm wide at base, about 10–12 cm wide across the corollas, puberulous; peduncle 1–9.5 cm long, sometimes with a lobed involucral bract made up of stipules and reduced leaves placed above the leaves subtending the inflorescence; pedicels of lateral flowers of triads up to 2 mm long; central flowers subsessile; bracts 3 mm long, ovate or triangular; bracteoles 0.7 mm long, triangular, supporting lateral flowers.
A shrub or small tree. It has a single stem. It grows 6 m high. It can be a small tree with a trunk 60 cm around. The leaves are 8-37 cm long by 5-14 cm wide. They are oval and leathery and dull. There are many flowers in a group. The flowers have a scent. The fruit are 8 mm across. They are red or orange. They turn purplish-black.
Corolla white, white tinged pink or white with pink lobe tips; tube 3.7–6 cm × 1–2 mm, slender, glabrous or minutely puberulous outside; lobes 8–9 × 2–3.2 mm, elliptic-oblong, usually with some hairs inside.
Shrub or shrubby tree 1.8–8 m tall (with long virgate branches fide Gossweiler); leaves and branches glabrous.
Fruits red or orange-red, sometimes becoming purplish-black (fide Milne-Redhead), about 8 mm in diameter.
Calyx tube 1.5 mm long, puberulous; limb-tube c. 0.5 mm with triangular lobes up to 1.5 mm long.
Corolla white, with the lobes pink at the tips
The pollen presenter arms 2–3 mm long.
Terminal corymbs of flowers
Style exserted up to 5 mm.
A shrub, 10-20 ft. high
Anthers 6 mm long.
Flowers scented.
Fruits red