Shrubs or trees 3-7 m tall. Branchlets slightly angular, 1.5-2 mm in diam., glabrous. Petiole marginate, 6-8 mm, decurrent at base; leaf blade elliptic to lanceolate, sometimes rhomboid, 5-9(-14) × 2-2.5(-4) cm, papery to subleathery, slightly asymmetric, glossy, glabrous, base cuneate, margin remotely serrulate to middle, teeth callose, apex acute to acuminate; lateral veins slightly raised, sparsely punctate, marginal vein evident. Inflorescences axillary, umbellate or fascicled, sessile; bracts ovate, ciliate, punctate. Flowers white to yellowish, ca. 2 mm, 4-merous. Pedicel ca. 2 mm, glabrous or puberulent, subtended by 1 bract. Calyx cupular; lobes ovate, keeled, sparsely puberulent outside, margin entire, ciliate, punctate, apex acuminate. Petals free or united to 1/3 length, long elliptic, oblong, or ligulate, glabrous, prominently punctate to middle, margin entire, ciliate, apex obtuse. Pistil puberulent. Stigma 2-cleft, fimbriate. Fruit red becoming purple-black, globose, 5-7 mm in diam., densely punctate. Fl. Feb-Apr, fr. Oct-Dec.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows 3-7 m high. The branches are slightly angular. They are 1.5-2 mm thick. The leaf stalks is 6-8 mm long. The leaf blade is sword shaped and 5-14 cm long by 2-2.5-4 cm wide. They are papery or slightly leathery. The leaf is slightly unequal on either half. The base is wedge shaped and there are teeth along the edge. The flowering stalk is in the axils of leaves. The flowers are white or yellowish. The fruit is red and becomes purple black. It is round and 5-7 mm across. The fruit is edible.
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