Shrubs evergreen, erect, ca. 2 m tall, spinescent. Branchlets opposite or subopposite, red-brown or black-brown, puberulent. Leaves alternate or subopposite, often distichously arranged; stipules lanceolate-subulate, minute, caducous; petiole 1-2 mm, puberulent; leaf blade adaxially yellow-green when dry, oblong or ovate-elliptic, 5-20 × 3-11 mm, leathery, both surfaces glabrous, lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs, reticulate veins inconspicuous, base subrounded, margin serrulate or entire, apex rounded, rarely acute, often mucronate. Flowers white, small, sessile, glabrous, in terminal spikes or spicate panicles; rachis ± densely puberulent, ca. 9 cm. Sepals triangular-ovate, adaxially medially keeled and hooded, apex acute. Petals spatulate or obovate-lanceolate, shorter than sepals, apex deeply emarginate. Stamens slightly longer than or equaling petals. Ovary glabrous, 3-loculed, with 1 ovule per locule; styles short, thick; stigma capitate, 3-divided. Drupe black-purple at maturity, nearly globose, 4-5.5 mm in diam., with 2 or 3 indehiscent pyrenes. Seeds yellowish, apically slightly emarginate. Fl. Jul-Oct, fr. May-Jun of following year.
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An evergreen shrub. It grows 2 m tall. The branches are opposite and red brown and hairy. The leaves are alternate and can be in 2 layers. The leaves are 5-20 mm long by 3-11 mm wide. The flowers are small and white. The fruit are round and black to purple when mature. They are 5 mm across.
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