Shrub or small tree, 1–5 m tall; young branches brownish or whitish, first pubescent but soon glabrous. Leaf-blades ± broadly ovate, 1.5–8.5 x 1–1.5 cm, acuminate to subacute at the apex, truncate to shortly cuneate at the base, with coarsely crenate or dentate to entire margins, sparsely to densely pubescent or subglabrous on both sides and with very obscure glands, tertiary venation forming a ± distinct reticulum; petiole 5–20 mm long, pubescent. Inflorescences 1–3(–5) cm long, mostly on short lateral shoots; peduncle 0–1(–3) cm long; pedicels 0.5–3 mm long; bracts 2–4 mm long. Calyx glandular; tube c. 1.5–2 mm long; lobes 0.5–1.5 mm long. Corolla white; tube 2.5–3.5 mm long, densely hairy at throat; lobes 2.5–3 mm long, glabrous to sparsely hairy outside. Fruit black when ripe, 3.5–6 mm in diam.