Shrub or small tree to 4 m, glabrous. Branchlets pendulous, angular, striate. Leaves lanceolate, sometimes narrowly ovate, acuminate or acute, not undulate, mostly 2.5–9 cm long and 5–15 mm wide, sessile or very shortly petiolate. Flowers solitary, sometimes on short, leafy branchlets; pedicel and hypanthium together 3–5 mm long, elongating in fruit. Calyx 0.2–0.3 mm long. Corolla 4–4.5 mm long, pale green. Stamens c. 2 mm long; anthers with short, bifid appendage; filaments broad; staminodes 3 mm long, broad at base, narrow and bifid above, glabrous. Style less than 1 mm long; ovary 3-locular. Drupe broadly ellipsoidal, 8–11 mm long; enlarged hypanthium cup-like, sometimes almost enclosing fruit, orange-red.
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