Erect, unarmed shrub, glabrous or sometimes with few-branched hairs on very young shoots; stems wiry, 40-120-(200) cm tall. Petiole to 2 cm long, slender. Lamina 3-12 × 1-3 cm, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, glossy above; margins usually undulate; base narrowly attenuate; apex obtuse or acute. Fls 1-several; peduncle 0-8 mm long; pedicels 5-10 mm long, erect at fruiting. Calyx 4-5 mm long; lobes lanceolate to ovate, slightly accrescent. Corolla c. 15 mm diam., white, glabrous; lobes oblong-ovate to ± triangular. Anthers 2.5-3 mm long. Berry 1.5-2 cm diam., globose, glossy, orange to scarlet, long-persistent; stone cells 0. Seeds c. 3 mm diam., suborbicular to reniform or obovoid, rather asymmetric; margin thickened.