Shrub or small tree, sometimes scrambling. Bark dark, smooth with conspicuous lenticels. Leaves spirally arranged, oblong-elliptic, up to 10 × 4 cm, very glossy dark green above, dull and paler below, veining indented above, domatia present; margin finely toothed or scalloped. Flowers in small stalked axillary clusters, greenish and inconspicuous. Fruit stalked, ovoid to subspherical, c. 5 mm in diameter, shiny red to almost black when ripe, edible.