Erect or spreading shrub up to c. 5 m. tall; bark black, branchlets divergent. Lvs coriac., patent or reflexed, sessile to very shortly petioled, glaucous below, 6-15-(20) × 0·5-1 mm.; margins ± recurved, ciliolate; apex with fine pungent tip c. 1 mm. long; veins 3-7, branched above. Infl. of solitary axillary fls on recurved peduncles ± 5 mm. long. Bracts imbricate, ovate-oblong, investing peduncle, up to c. 1 mm. long. Fls 3-4 mm. long; calyx-lobes ovate-oblong, c. 3 mm. long, ciliolate. Corollatube hardly > calyx, whitish green; lobes spreading, whitish green, acute or subacute, us. glab. on upper surface. Fr. white to pink to red to crimson to dark purple; 4-7-(9) mm. diam., globose; locules 5.