Shrub, small bushy tree or subscandent, 1–3.6(–4.2) m.; branches slender, at first pale and with very scattered or denser pubescence, later dark grey, glabrous, with longitudinally peeling often whitish epidermis, sometimes nodular with very much reduced lateral branches.. Leaf-blades elliptic, rounded-ovate or lanceolate, 0.5–8 cm. long, 0.4–4 cm. wide, obtuse to subacute or bluntly acuminate at the apex, rounded to ± cuneate or subcordate at the base, entire to very obscurely or less often distinctly lobed, glabrous to very shortly pubescent, minutely glandular punctate and with scattered yellowish glands; petiole 0.4–1.2 cm. long, pubescent and glandular.. Inflorescences ± few-flowered, terminal or appearing lateral when on the very short side shoots, 1–8.5 cm. long and wide; peduncle slender, 0.5–1.7 cm. long, pubescent; pedicels 2–3.5 mm. long, pubescent and glandular; bracts linear, up to 2 mm. long.. Calyx glabrous or slighdy pubescent and glandular; tube cupular, ± 1.5 mm. long; lobes triangular or rounded, 0.5–1.5 mm. long.. Corolla greenish yellow, cream or white; tube 2–2.2 mm. long, glandular outside, hairy at the throat; lobes oblong, 2.2 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, puberulous outside towards the apex.. Fruit red, ? turning black, globose or obovoid, 6.5 mm. in diameter, glandular at apex, sitting in shallow calycine cup 3.5 mm. wide, sometimes obscurely 4-lobed; pyrene longitudinally reticulately ridged.
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A shrub. It grows 2-4 m tall. The branches are slender and white. The bark is thin and light brown and peels off in strips. The leaves have a smell. The leaves are 1-3 cm long. They are opposite and in groups of 4. Two are larger and two are smaller. The flowers are greenish-white. They are very small and in small groups. The fruit is black and fleshy. It is oval and 4-7 mm across.
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