Small tree, evergreen, hermaphrodite, up to 8(10) m in height, irregular in shape but \u00b1 broadly ovoid, with extended branches and dense foliage. Trunk usually well defined, with greyish bark, fissured and very dark in older specimens. Young branchlets glabrous, green or sometimes reddish. Leaves (7-15 \u00d7 2.5-5 cm) alternate, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, obtuse, slightly acuminate, with rounded or slightly attenuated base, serrate margin with teeth sometimes inconspicuous and spaced, coriaceous, glabrous, intense dark green with white marks on the upper side and slightly paler on the underside. Inflorescence in long racemes (up to 28 cm), dense [with 30-80(100) flowers], upright or pendant, axillary, longer than the leaf, without small leaves at the base. Flowers small, 8-12 mm in diameter, with glabrous pedicels about 5 mm long. Calyx with 5 green sepals, triangular-suborbicular, very small (0.8-1.2 mm long). Corolla with 5 white petals, oval-suborbicular, 3-5 mm long. Stamens numerous (about 20) with white or pinkish filaments and yellow anthers. Fruit an ovoid \u00b1 acute drupe, often apiculate, 8-13 mm long, glabrous, first green, then red and finally black. Seed ovoid, not compressed, with smooth surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12846","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n