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Shrubs or small trees, 2–3 m, usually unarmed, rarely armed with weak thorns. Branchlets dark purple or purple-red, glabrous. Leaves deciduous, usually opposite to subopposite, sometimes alternate, usually fascicled on short shoots, separating with age; petiole 10–28 mm; blade green abaxially, darker green adaxially, usually broadly ovate, ovate, oblong-ovate, or ovate-cordate, sometimes ovate-orbiculate, 2.5–6(–7) cm, herbaceous, base truncate to cordate, margins spinulose-serrate, apex obtuse-rounded or acute, both surfaces glabrous or abaxial puberulent along veins; secondary veins (3–)4–5 pairs, all diverging at nearly same angle or proximal diverging more obtusely. Inflorescences fascicles or flowers solitary. Pedicels 10–24(–30) mm. Sepals 4. Petals 4. Drupes black, globose to obovoid-globose, 7–10 mm; stones 3. 2n = 24.
A shrub or small tree. It grows 2-3 m tall. It can have spines. The leaves are opposite or alternate. The leaves are 2-6 cm long by 2-5 cm long. Male and female flowers are separate. The fruit is round and black when mature. It is 6-7 mm across.
