Much-branched shrub or small tree 1–6(–8) m. tall, occasionally somewhat scandent; branchlets coarsely velvety with very dense rusty or orange-brown multibranched hairs, sometimes quite long; older stems glabrescent, eventually glabrous, pale brown, ridged and ± corky.. Leaves variable, opposite, aromatic; blades elliptic, oblong, oblong-obovate or obovate-lanceolate, 1.5–9.5 cm. long, 0.8–6 cm. wide, acute to acuminate at the apex, rarely ± rounded, narrowly rounded, broadly cuneate or rounded at the base, entire or obscurely to distinctly crenate or toothed, thinly pubescent to velvety above with small stellate hairs and longer simple hairs which may, however, be missing, and similarly pubescent or velvety beneath particularly on the raised nerves; gland-dots dense but obscure; petiole 0.5–1.2 cm. long.. Flowers small in dense mostly elongate much-branched complicated terminal panicles 1–7 cm. long; bracts filiform, 4 mm. long; pedicels 0.5 mm. long; axes pubescent like the stems.. Calyx cupular, 1.8 mm. long, truncate or with 5 short teeth to 0.5 mm. long, glandular and densely stellate-pubescent.. Corolla greenish white or cream to yellow, glandular and slightly puberulous outside; tube 2.5–4 mm. long; limb 2-lipped, the lobes rounded to oblong, 1.2–2 mm. long, 1.3–1.5 mm. wide.. Style green, forked at tip.. Drupes black or purplish black, ellipsoid to obovoid, 4.5–6 mm. long, 4–4.5 mm. wide, pubescent, sitting in a cup 3.5 mm. wide.
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A shrub or small tree. It can grow 6 m tall. The branches have a velvety or rusty coating. The leaves are opposite and are vary in shape. They are 2-10 cm long by 1-6 cm wide. They are broadly wedge shaped or rounded at the base. The fruit are purplish-black and 5-6 mm long.
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