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Shrub, semiperennial, marcescent, hermaphrodite, up to 3(5) m in height, erect, ramose. Trunk straight, with slightly fissured bark, but with a few warts, greyish. Branches flexible, straight, with smooth bark, brown-greyish. Branchlets glabrous or with a short tomentose indumentum, chestnut-greyish. Leaves (2-8 \u00d7 0.7-2 cm) from elliptic-lanceolate to oblanceolate, with entire margin, acute, shortly petiolate, slightly coriaceous, glabrous, deep green on the upper side and slightly duller on the underside. Inflorescence in dense terminal racemes, erect. Flowers small (4-7 mm in diameter), white and odorous. Calyx cupuliform, with 4 small teeth, green. Corolla white, in one piece, with elongated tube and 4(5) lobes of the same length. Stamens 2, exserted, borne within the corolla tube. Fruit a kind of globose berry, with black surface, with a membranous endocarp. 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