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Flowers not scented (always?), in sessile or shortly to distinctly pedunculate 3–8-flowered pubescent to glabrous inflorescences; when sessile the 2 inflorescences at each side appearing as a single cluster; peduncles 2–18 mm long; secondary peduncles 0.3 mm long; bracts and bracteoles all rather similar, 1.5–3.5 mm long, ovate-triangular, usually united into boat-shaped cups, acute, apiculate or caudate at the apex, mostly rather coarsely ± spreading-pubescent or glabrous.
Leaves 2.5–16(19) × 1.3–5.7 cm, usually narrowly lanceolate, or narrowly elliptic to oblong-elliptic, mostly slender acute-acuminate at the apex but sometimes obtuse or the actual acumen rounded to subacute, cuneate to almost rounded at the base, rather thin, glabrous; petioles 4–10 mm long; stipules 1.5–5 × 2–5 mm, triangular, keeled, often apiculate; glabrous or pubescent, deciduous.
Corolla very pale lilac, white or pink-tinged, glabrous, slightly pubescent or usually puberulous all over with minute appressed or slightly spreading hairs outside; tube 4.5–7 mm long; lobes 1.7–2 mm long and wide, oblong-ovate to ovate, obtuse or acute.
Calyx with similar indumentum; tube 0.5–2.5 mm long; limb-tube 1.3–2 mm long, usually with distinct but distant acute or apiculate teeth, or shallowly undulate toothed or even ± truncate.
Fruit often glaucous at first, becoming red-purple or black, 6–9 × 9–12 × 7–8 mm, subglobose, usually slightly compressed and obscurely didymous.
Style up to 11 mm long, densely hairy; stigmatic lobes 1.5–2 mm long.
Seeds ± shiny, chestnut-coloured, 6–7.5 × 3.5 mm, hemispherical.
Stems glabrous, the older with grey fissured bark.
Slender spreading shrub 1.2–3.5 m tall.
