Large, evergreen, glabrous shrub, with a thin, lenticellate bark. Leaves ovate-oblong to elliptic-lanceolate, 7.5-15 (-17.5) cm long, 3-7 cm broad, serrate or dentate, acute to acuminate, base rounded to narrowed; petiole 1-2.5 cm long. Flowers small, 4-5 mm across, white, usually in branched, axillary racemes, shorter than leaves. Calyx campanulate. Corolla lobes ovate, obtuse, rotate, minutely dentate at margins. Berry 5-7 mm across, globose, whitish, surrounded by persistent calyx.