Shrubs or trees 3-15 m, polygamodioecious. Branchlets terete, finely pubescent to glabrescent. Petiole 3-10 mm, pubescent to finely puberulent; leaf blade oblanceolate, obovate-elliptic, elliptic, or elliptic-oblong, (3-)4-9(-14) × (1.5-) 2-3(-6) cm, leathery, glabrous or puberulent along midrib especially near petiole, base attenuate, margin entire or finely serrate, teeth sharp and ca. 0.5 mm, apex acute to obtuse or rounded, often slightly acuminate; primary veins 5-7 on each side of midrib, often obscure. Inflorescences axillary, paniculate, 2-10 cm, puberulent to glabrescent. Flowers usually in subumbellate groups, white, yellowish, or red. Staminate flowers: pedicel 1-5 mm, slender, glabrous; calyx 1-1.5 mm; corolla 2-3.5(-4.5) mm, lobes broadly deltate, 0.5-1.2 mm. Bisexual flowers: pedicel 0-2 mm, stout; calyx as in staminate flowers; corolla 2-4.5 mm, lobes 0.5-1.5 mm. Drupe purple-black, ovoid-globose, long ellipsoid, or subglobose, 6-13 × 3-9 mm. Fl. Feb-Nov, fr. May-Dec.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows 3-15 m high. The leaf stalk is 3-10 mm long and finely hairy. The leaf blade is oval or oblong. It is 4-9 cm long by 2-3 cm wide. It is leathery. There can be fine teeth along the edge. There are 5-7 veins on each side of the midrib. The flowers are in the axils of leaves. They form a panicle 2-10 cm long. The flowers can be white, yellow or red. The fruit is fleshy with a hard covering over the seed. It is purple black and oval. It is 6-13 mm long by 3-9 mm wide.
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