Shrub or small tree 1–10 m high; lenticels pale. Leaves: petiole 3–7 mm long; lamina elliptic to oblanceolate to obovate, 4.8–16 cm long, 1.6–6.2 cm wide, cuneate base, entire and often slightly revolute margin, acute to obtuse apex, discolorous, coriaceous, glands chiefly lineate pellucid, readily visible when dry, small globular red dots inconspicuous. Inflorescence with 3–10 flowers per fascicle, peduncles to 2 mm long. Flowers usually 5-merous, pedicels 1–4 (–10) mm long; calyx and corolla similar in both sexes; corolla campanulate, greenish to white to yellowish, to 4 mm long; anthers c. 1–1.3 mm long; ovary globular, c. 0.8 mm long; stigma large, c. 0.5 mm long, irregularly lobed; ovules 5 or 6. Fruit globular to depressed-globular, 4–7 × 3–5 mm, purple to blue-black.
Usually found in rainforest or wet sclerophyll, often along streams or gullies, from near sea level to 1200 m alt. above sea level.
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