Shrub to 6 m. tall, the younger stems and petioles stellate-tomentose and also more or less densely hirsute; petioles 3-10 mm. long; leaf-blades firm, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, up to 15 cm. long, a third to nearly half as wide, acuminate, entire to minutely serrulate, obtuse or rounded at the base, 5-pli-nerved, the veins usually conspicuously impressed, sparsely stellate above when young, later nearly or quite glabrous, below hirsutulous with simple hairs; panicle compact, up to 1 dm. long, more or less hirsute, the sessile flowers commonly crowded toward the ends of the branches; hypanthium campanulate, 2.5-3 mm. long, finely stellate and sparsely hirsute; calyx-tube about 0.7 mm. long, its lobes minute, triangular, about equaled by the exterior teeth; petals white, obovate, about 4 mm. long; stamens somewhat dimorphic; anthers linear 3-3.5 or 4-4.5 mm. long, the connective expanded below the thecae into two lateral lobes, somewhat deflexed on the smaller anthers, curved forward on the larger ones; summit of the ovary commonly setose; stigma capitate.
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A shrub. The leaves have reddish veins underneath. The flowers are white. They are in groups at the ends of branches. The fruit are black berries.
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