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Leaves subsessile, dark green; lamina c. 10 × 4 cm., papyraceous, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at the apex (acumen 1–2 cm. long, mucronulate), cuneate to rounded at the base; midrib impressed above, prominent below; lateral nerves 4–7 pairs, impressed or very slightly raised above, prominulous below; venation laxly reticulate, slightly raised on both surfaces.
Flowers (immature) in short axillary single or fasciculate racemes; rhachis up to 2 cm. long, glabrous; bracts c. 2·5 × 1 mm., lanceolate, green with the margin hyaline, articulated at the base, soon caducous; pedicels short; buds obovoid, greenish.
A shrub or small tree. It grows 3 m high. The leaves are narrowly oval and 11 cm long by 4 cm wide. The flowers are white. The fruit are round and red. They are 5 mm across. They are edible when ripe.
Fruit up to 9 mm. in diam., red when ripe, drupaceous, globose; stone c. 5 mm. in diam., spheroid, smooth.
Stems and branches deep green, very narrowly 4-winged, minutely papillose-scabridulous.
A glabrous low shrub, up to 4 ft. high, rarely more
Shrub up to about 1·5 m. tall, glabrous.
Calyx cupuliform, entire.
Stamens 3; staminodes 5.
Ripe fruits red
Flowers white
Petals 5.
