Shrub or subshrub 0.5–3.6 m. tall, with glabrous branches.. Leaf-blades broadly to narrowly elliptic or ovate, (6–)10–25 cm. long, (2.7–)4–12 cm. wide, acute to shortly acuminate at the apex, narrowly cuneate or rounded and then cuneate at the base, thin, usually grey-green, glabrous on both surfaces; nodules usually numerous, up to 2 mm. long, dispersed throughout the blade; petiole 1–9 cm. long, glabrous; stipules prominently bilobed, the base ovate-triangular, 3–9 mm. long, the lobes 1–4 mm. long, glabrous.. Flowers heterostylous, 5-merous, in slightly to much-branched glabrous panicles 5–14 cm. long; peduncles 2.5–5.5 cm. long; secondary branches 0.5–1.5 cm. long; pedicels up to ± 1 mm. (or even 5–8 mm. in fruit) long; bracts almost obsolete.. Calyx glabrous; tube turbinate, ± 1 mm. tall; limb cupuliform, 0.75–1 mm. tall, the lobes obsolete or broadly triangular, 0.2 mm. long.. Corolla white, greenish, yellowish or cream, glabrous outside; tube 2–2.75 mm. long; lobes oblong-elliptic, 1.5–2.25 mm. long, 0.8 mm. wide.. Stamens in short-styled flowers with filaments 1–2 mm. long, almost obsolete in long-styled flowers.. Style ± 1 mm. long in short-styled flowers, 3.5–4.5 mm. long in long-styled flowers; stigma-lobes 0.3–0.75 mm. long.. Drupes red, with 2 pyrenes, subglobose, but quite didymous when young, 5–6.5 mm. tall, 7–8(–10) mm. wide, somewhat bilobed, glabrous; pyrenes semi-globose or globose when only 1 developed, 4.5–5.5 mm. in diameter, 3 mm. thick.. Seeds semiglobose or globose, 4.2 mm. in diameter, the ventral face with a broad or T-shaped median groove; albumen not ruminate.
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