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Leaves not markedly dimorphic, sometimes those at start of new season’s growth smaller; main blades 6–11(19) × 1.5–4(8) cm, obovate or elliptic rarely ovate, acute or acuminate at the tip, cuneate at the base, papery or subcoriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces; midrib puberulous or pubescent above and beneath (especially when leaves are young); lateral nerves in (3)4–7(8) main pairs; domatia with a pit-or cave-like excavation, ciliate or densely hairy; petiole 2–7(10) mm long, puberulous; stipule limbs 1–2 mm long, puberulous outside, with awns 2–7 mm long.
A shrub or small tree. The leaves are opposite and narrowly oval. They are 11 cm long by 4 cm wide. They are shiny and dark green. The flowers are in clusters of 3. They are white or greenish-cream. The fruit are round and 3-6 mm across. They are red when ripe.
Corolla white, cream-coloured or greenish; tube 2–8 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, pubescent towards the top outside and ± hairy especially in the throat and upper part of tube inside; lobes 3–6× 1–2 mm, acute at tip, pubescent below, hairy towards tip above.
Inflorescences mostly borne in leaf axils but also at naked nodes, subsessile, 3–many-flowered; bract and bracteoles cupular, pubescent.
Calyx tube glabrous, rarely pubescent, hidden by the bracteolar cup; limb tubular, shortly toothed, pubescent, 1–1.5 mm high.
Seeds with curved hilum; seed coat ± striate, thickened at the ventral side and weakly intruding into the endosperm.
Fruit red, spherical, 3–6 mm in diameter, with 1 hemispherical or 2 quarter-spherical seeds in each chamber.
Placenta with 2(3) ovules; style pubescent, 4–12 mm long including the 1–4 mm long lobes.
Filaments 0.6–3 mm long; anthers 1.5–5 mm long, mostly ± hairy, especially at the tip.
Flowers (4)5–6-merous, ± scented (sometimes described as unpleasant), subsessile.
Shrub or sometimes a tree 1–10(18) m high; young twigs puberulous or pubescent.
A shrub or small tree, 7-30 ft. high
Profuse white flowers
Fruits red
