It can be considered as shrub or small tree with average height up to 5 m.[1] Shrubs or small trees, up to 5 m high; branchlets slender, cylindric, glabrous.

Leaves unifoliolate, leaflet 7.5-13.5 x 2.5-5.2 cm, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, shallowly narrowed at base, caudate-acuminate at apex with 10–15 mm long acumen, entire along margins, coriaceous, glabrous, notched at tip; secondary nerves ca 10 pairs with as many fainter ones in between arising at angles 50-600 with the midnerve, finely reticulate; petioles 5–10 mm long, horizontally grooved above, articulate with base of blade, glabrous.

Inflorescence axillary racemes, up to 2.5 cm long, few-flowered, glabrous; pedicels slender, ca 7 mm long, glabrous.

Ovary seated on an annular disk, 2-locular; each locule with 2-collateral ovules; stigma subcapitate.

Berry globose, glandular, 2-locular, young (unripe) fruits ca 10 x 8 mm.