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Much-branched shrub, 3-4 m high; branches glaucous, purplish, with decurrent ridges from the cupular nodes; leaves sessile in fascicles of 5-10, linear, 9-25 mm long, 1-3 mm broad, acute, rather fleshy; flowers solitary on very short peduncles, 4-merous; calyx 3 mm long, shortly and unequally 4-toothed; teeth ciliate; corolla 6-8 mm long, tubular; lobes 4, oblong, ciliate, about 2 mm long; stamens unequal, inserted a little above the corolla-base, 1 slightly exserted, 2 reaching the throat, the 4th included; filaments hirsute at the base; ovary ovoid, adnate to the red fleshy disk; style exserted; stigma capitate.
Shrub, up to 4 m high, young branches pendulous. Leaves densely fascicled, oblong to narrowly obovate, 14-35 mm long, glabrous. Plants functionally dioecious. Flowers: calyx 2.3-3.0 mm long; corolla 5-6 mm long; male flower with stamens fertile, style absent or stunted; female flowers with stamens sterile, style longer than stamens, nectary orange-red, prominent. Flowering time Nov.-Apr. Fruit ovoid, red or black berry.
A shrub. It grows 3-4 m tall. Young branches hand down. They can be thorny. The leaves are clustered on the branches. They are 14-25 mm long by 1-3 mm wide. Male and female flowers are separate. The fruit are red and when ripe are red to black. They are 4-5 mm long by 3-4 mm wide.
