Evergreen shrub or tree up to 5 meter tall, glabrous, profusely branched with almost whitish drooping stems. Leaves are entire opposite up to 5 cm, elliptic-ovate, with long petiole up to 2.5 cm, pale green, generally succulent, coriaceous, the apex acute to rounded, with 5-6 pairs of disctinct nerves. Inflorescence is a drooping lax axilliary and terminal panicle up to 30 cm long and longer than the leaves. Flower greenish-white 1.5 mm, pedicellate with petals shortly united at the base, stamens attached to the petals (epipetalous), sepal less than a half the length of the completly recurved petals. The fruit is a globose translucent drupe white ripening red and measuring between 2.5 and 5 mm.