Shrub or small to large tree; bark dark grey, fissured longitudinally or into square flakes, slash pink. Young stems yellowish, whitish or ferrugineous pubescent, soon glabrescent, older twigs with longitudinally wrinkled grey bark. Leaves 4·5–14 x 2–5·5 cm., ovate–oblong to obovate, the apex rounded, acute or acuminate, the base acute; petiole 0·5–1(1·5) cm. long. Upper surface mat or glossy, with prominent midrib but usually obscure vein reticulation, glabrous. Lower surface mat, with prominent midrib and obscure reticulation, usually glabrous, rarely ferrugineous appressed–pubescent. Flowers 1–4 in leaf axils; pedicels 2–8 cm. long. Calyx 9–12 mm. long. Corolla equalling or slightly shorter than calyx, white; lateral segments simple, lanceolate or sometimes divided into 2–3 laciniae, median segments elliptic; tube 1–2 mm. long. Anthers 2·5–4 mm. long. Gynoecium 8–12 mm. long. Fruit up to 2·5 cm. long, an edible plum–shaped 1–2–seeded berry yellowish–orange to red when ripe. Seed up to 1·8 cm. long.