Shrubs to 11/2 m tall, the branchlets slender, terete, smooth, minutely puber-ulent, sometimes contracted below the nodes, the latter well spaced. Leaves oblong or lanceolate, occasionally subfalcate, to 18 cm long, to 8 cm wide, cus-pidate at the apex, the cusp to 1 cm long, acute to attenuate acute at the base, usually equilateral, the costa prominulous above, prominulous to subprominent beneath, to 0.13 cm wide at the base, the lateral veins 12-14, widely arcuate, prominulous, the veinlets prominulous, membranaceous to chartaceous, smooth, glabrous; petioles to 3 cm long, to 1.3 mm wide; stipules tending to persist, erect, free, the body scarcely measurable or to 1.5 mm long, the lobes 2, subulate, 8-13 mm long, glabrous, fimbriate within. Inflorescences usually terminal, solitary, shortly pedunculate, 2-5 cm long, about as long as broad. Flowers with the hypanthium short, glabrate, the calycine cup scarcely measurable, lacking glands within, the teeth irregular and unequal, subulate to oblong rotund, to 0.8 mm long, acute and/or obtuse; corolla white, the tube cylindrical, 2.5 mm long, pet-aloid, glabrous or papillose puberulent outside, villose within near the filament attachment, the lobes oblong or ovate oblong, 0.8 mm long, cucullate, often papillate puberulent within; stamens 5, oblong, ca. 1 mm long, attached above the middle of the tube; stigmas 5, linear subulate, ca. 0.7 mm long, the style slender, 2 mm long, often papillate puberulent; the ovary 5-celled. Fruits usually somewhat congested, rotund, 5-6 mm in diam., 5-lobed, maturing from orange red to black; pyrenes ca. 3 mm long, lightly costate.
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