Tall shrub or small tree 3–12 m high; branches glabrous or puberulous when young. Leaves narrow-lanceolate, 2–8.5 cm long, 4–25 mm wide, c. obtuse, margins entire, discolorous, glabrous, venation obscure; petiole 2–12 mm long, often purplish. Racemes mostly 1.5–4 cm long, 1–3 per axil, mostly 7–13-flowered; pedicels 2–7 mm long. Calyx 0.5–1.5 mm long, with prominent c. triangular teeth; petals 1–1.5 mm long, imbricate in bud, yellow-green. Drupe subglobose, 6–10 mm diam., white, pink or purplish-black. Flowers summer and autumn.