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Evergreen shrub, hermaphrodite, up to 3(4) m in height, erect, with long flexible branches. Main stem and old branches with smooth bark or slightly fissured on older specimens, greyish. Young branches always with smooth greyish bark; branches of the current year, greenish. Leaves (2-8 \u00d7 0.3-1.5 cm) linear or linear-lanceolate, opposite, entire, very rarely with some small teeth spaced apart, with acute apex, attenuated at the base, petiolate, somewhat coriaceous, glabrous, light green or dark green, always slightly lighter on the underside. Inflorescence in very short, axillary racemes. Flowers white, small, hermaphrodite. Calyx campanulate, greenish, with 4 shallow teeth. Corolla with short tube, opened in 4 obtuse lobes. Stamens 2, with large anthers in proportion to the filaments, which are very short. Ovary with short style and wide stigma with 2 lobules. Fruit an ovoid or globose drupe, with a small terminal beak, blueish-black. 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