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Erect bushy glabrous (apart from the flowers) shrub or small tree, 3–5 m. high, with smooth grey bark and neither spines nor tendrils.. Branches opposite and decussate, ultimate twigs ± ochre-coloured, older ones dark-coloured and lenticellate, both with persistent swollen petiole-bases.. Leaves shortly petiolate; lamina subcoriaceous, obovate, oblong-obovate or elliptic, 1.5–4.5 cm. long, 0.8–3 cm. wide, usually rounded but sometimes emarginate or acute, cuneate at the base, usually dull, 3-nerved from or just above the base, with a fainter submarginal and marginal nerve along the somewhat inrolled margin; venation not conspicuous above.. Cymes axillary, rather numerous, laxly 3–9-flowered; bracts and bracteoles conspicuous; peduncles 4–10 mm.; pedicels 3–4 mm. long.. Flowers 4–5-merous, scented, about 4 mm. long.. Calyx-lobes ovate, shortly ciliate, rounded or subacute.. Corolla white or cream-coloured; tube usually shortly campanulate, sometimes thinly pilose in the throat, otherwise glabrous; lobes as long as or longer than the tube, oblong to oblong-deltoid, pilose inside.. Stamens inserted in sinuses of the corolla-lobes, very shortly exserted.. Style longer than the ovary, both glabrous.. Fruit subglobose, 7–17 mm. in diameter, with a firm rind, yellow-orange.. Seed solitary, ellipsoid, about 1 cm. long, slightly laterally compressed, with a depression (hilum) on one face.
Leaves: petiole glabrous, 2–7(10) mm. long lamina shining and dark green above, paler beneath, pale greenish– or yellowish–brown when dry, subcoriaceous, also when fresh, very variable in shape and size, obovate, elliptic, narrowly elliptic, narrowly obovate, ovate, or narrowly ovate, (1)1·5–3(4) times as long as wide, (1)2–5(11·5) x (0·4)0·8–3(6·5) cm., rounded, obtuse, or broadly and bluntly acuminate at the apex, cuneate or rounded at the base, glabrous on both sides; one or two pairs of secondary veins from or from somewhat above the base curved along the margin and often a faint submarginal pair; margin often slightly involute.
A small slender tree. It grows 3-12 m high. The branches are very leafy and droop downwards. The bark is dark grey and rather smooth. It has light brown dots. The leaves are oval and broadest above the middle. They are 1.5-5 cm long by 1-3 cm wide. They are leathery. They are glossy green. The base tapers. The flowers are small and white or greenish. They have a scent. They are in loose heads 3.5 cm long by 2 cm wide. They occur in the axils of leaves or on old wood. The fruit are almost round. They are fleshy with a crusty rind. They are about 1.5 cm across. They are orange or red when mature. They contain 1 or 2 smooth seeds.
Tree or shrub, 1.5-16.0 m high, pale grey bark. Leaves decussate on ultimate branchlets, obovate to narrowly elliptic, apex acuminate, margins entire; petioles glabrous. Inflorescence terminal or axillary; pedicels slender, cymes simple. Flowers white-green. Calyx 4-lobed. Corolla 4-lobed, creamy white, densely bearded inner surface; lobes valvate; tube puberulous. Stamens 4, on corolla tube, exserted; filaments short. Ovary with up to 10 ovules; style straight, stigma capitate, small. Flowering time Oct.-Jan. Fruit globose berries, green to orange, 2 x 1.9 mm in diam. Seeds pulp edible, flattened, ellipsoid.
Corolla in the mature bud 3·5–5 times as long as the calyx, 4–6 mm. long, and rounded at the apex, white, creamy, or yellow, outside glabrous or minutely papillose–pubescent, inside densely pilose except for the glabrous apex of the lobes and base of the tube; tube short–campanulate or nearly cylindrical, often much widened towards the throat, very variable in length, 1·2–5 times as long as the calyx, 1–3·2 mm. long, at the throat (1·5)2–3 mm. wide; lobes oblong or narrowly triangular, 0·6–3 times as long as the tube, 1·7–2·5 times as long as wide, 1·7–3·2 x 1–1·6 mm., acute, spreading or sometimes recurved.
Sepals connate up to one–quarter of their length, equal, subequal, or occasionally unequal, broadly ovate to triangular, 1–1·5(1·7) times as long as wide, 1–1·3 x 0·6–1 mm. (when unequal smallest 0·6 x 0·4 mm.), acute or obtuse at the apex, minutely ciliate, glabrous on both sides or like the pedicels minutely or conspicuously papillose–pubescent outside, without colleters.
Inflorescences axillary and sometimes also terminal, or ramiflor–ous, often appearing before the season’s new leaves, often several together, lax, several flowered, 1·5 x 1·5–3 x 2·5 cm., 1–2 times branched. Peduncle, branches, and pedicels slender, minutely or conspicuously papillose–pubescent or less often glabrous.
Stamens exserted; filaments short or long, very variable in length and elongate at anthesis, longer in flowers with shorter corolla tube (like in S. potatorum), 0·5–2 times as long as the anthers, glabrous, inserted at the mouth of the corolla tube; anthers oblong, 0·8–1·3 x (0·4)0·5–1 mm., glabrous.
Slender tree, 2-12 m high. Leaves broadest at or above middle, broadly rounded at apex or shortly acuminate, up to 50 mm long. Fruit small, 16 mm in diameter, 1-or 2-seeded. Inflorescence lateral; flowers 5-merous; creamy white or whitish green.
Seeds pale grey–brown, not or hardly flattened, ellipsoid, slightly longer than wide and wider than thick, 10 x 10 x 7–16 x 12 x 9 mm., densely and shortly appressed–pubescent, smooth; testa sticking to the pulp, often wrinkled in dry fruits.
Slender tree with waxy branchlets to 12 m. Leaves glossy, obovate to elliptic, 3-5-veined from base. Flowers in axillary, racemose cymes, often appearing before leaves, whitish, calyx lobes ovate, 1 mm long. Fruits turning red, 16 mm diam.
Fruit orange, nearly mature glaucous or green, small, soft, ellipsoid or globose, sometimes stipitate, 1·5–2 x 1·5–1·9 mm., 1(–2)–seeded, with somewhat granular skin, slightly shining. Wall thin, dry, about 0–3 mm. thick. Pulp edible.
Pistil glabrous, slender, 3·8–5·2 mm. long; ovary ovoid or narrowly ovoid, 1–2 x 0·8–1·2 mm., gradually narrowed into the style, 2–celled; style 1·8–3·9 mm. long; stigma capitate or sometimes bilobed, often rather small.
Branches lenticellate, pale brown or pale grey to black when dry; branchlets lenticellate or not, not or obscurely sulcate, and terete or nearly so when dry.
Bark smooth, pale to dark grey; wood hard.
Shrub or small tree, 2–12(17) m. high.
Flower (4)5–merous, fragrant.
Trunk 8–30(45) cm. in diam.
In each cell 5–10 ovules.
Tendrils none.
