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Leaves 1.8–11 × 0.7–5 cm, oblong-elliptic to ovate or lanceolate, acuminate at the apex with the tip ± rounded, broadly cuneate to rounded at the base, glabrous save for barbellate domatia, or sparsely to fairly densely appressed pilose or setulose, particularly on the midrib, usually distinctly thin; petiole 2–7 mm long; stipules ± connate at the base, 1.5–3 mm long, with triangular-truncate bases, scarious but sometimes becoming woody, ± villous inside, with a subulate appendage 2–8 mm long or rarely lacking.
Scrambling or erect shrub or small tree 1–5(9) m tall, often deciduous, the branches usually slender; bark grey-black; branchlets grey to purple-brown, with or without lenticels, glabrous or pubescent, or setulose on young parts.
Cymes umbel-like, 2–8-flowered, often produced together with young leaves; peduncle 0.5–4 mm long, or ± obsolete; pedicels 2–10(15) mm long; bracteoles 1–2 mm long, connate to form a scarious involucre.
Corolla rounded to sub-apiculate at the apex in bud; creamy, yellow or greenish-white; tube 2.5–4 mm long, with a ring of deflexed hairs within; lobes 1.8–3 mm long, triangular or oblong, subapiculate.
Fruit black, 6–9 mm in diameter, subglobose, with (2)4–5 pyrenes; pedicels 7–12 (15) mm long.
Calyx tube 1–1.5 mm long, the limb 0.3 mm long, truncate or obscurely toothed, scarious.
Stigma described as yellow below, green in middle and blue on top, coroniform, 5-lobed.
Scrambling or erect shrub or small tree up to 15 ft. high
Flowers pale greenish or yellowish
Pyrenes usually pitted.
Style 4–4.5 mm long.
Ovary (4)5–locular.
Fruits reddish
