Shrub or small tree to 5 m high. Leaves ovate or narrowly ovate, or sometimes obovate, rarely elliptic, lateral veins scarcely or not visible; lamina c. 3–7 cm long and 1–3 cm wide. Inflorescence generally cymose, sometimes compressed and appearing umbellate, to 8-flowered, primary peduncle 1–6 mm, rarely 9 mm, long, glabrous or sparsely puberulous. Hypanthium campanulate to turbinate, c. 1.5 mm long and 1.5 mm diam. Calyx lobes reduced to small but distinct teeth. Petals white or blue. Stamens: anthers dolabriform, with a bilobed dorsal appendage and a distinct dorsal gland. Fruit globose or depressed globose, to 6 mm long and 8 mm diam., with a narrow but relatively distinct corona, green becoming blue or black.
A shrub or small tree. It grows 5 m high. The leaves are oval. They are 3 cm long by 1-2 cm wide. They are shiny and light green. They have prominent midrib. The flowers are white or blue. The fruit is a green berry. It turns blue or black when ripe.