Shrubs or rarely trees, 1.5-4 m tall, many-branched. Branches 4-sided, later terete; bark glaucous. Petiole 3-5 mm; leaf blade elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, 2-5 × 1-3 cm, leathery, both surfaces densely small tuberculate and scabrous, base broadly cuneate, margin entire, apex obtuse, rounded, or retuse. Inflorescences axillary, cymose, up to 8 mm; peduncle base often setose. Pedicel 1-2 mm, glabrous. Hypanthium shallowly cup-shaped, ca. 2 × 3 mm, glabrous, apically truncate, repand, and 4-apiculate. Petals purple to blue, broadly ovate, ca. 2.5 mm. Stamens ca. 3 mm; filaments ca. 2 mm; anthers and conic connective ca. 1 mm, with a small concave abaxial gland. Fruit a baccate drupe, globular, 6-7 mm in diam., densely tuberculate. Fl. (Mar-)Jun-Aug, fr. (Nov-)Jan-Mar.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows 2-4 m tall. It has many branches. The young branches are 4 sided. The leaves are oval and 2-5 cm long by 1-3 cm wide. They are leathery and have lumps on both surfaces. The flowers are in groups in the axils of leaves. The fruit is berry like and round and 6-7 mm across. They are lumpy.
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