Plants 2-5 m tall. Branches slender, 3-angled when young. Leaf blade grayish green, 1.2-6 × 0.6-2 cm, leathery, sometimes rugose on both surfaces, with dense glands, base gradually narrowed or obtuse, apex acute to cuspidate or rounded. Male inflorescences 2-4(-13)-flowered; peduncle to 11 mm. Female inflorescences 1-3-flowered; bracts minute, caducous. Male flowers pedicel 4-8 mm; perianth 4 mm in diam., lobes 3, yellow or green, sometimes flushed brown, ca. 1.5 mm. Stamens 3, filaments very short, disk fleshy; sterile ovary very small, at center of disk. Female flowers usually solitary, sometimes to 4 in subumbel; pedicel to 25 mm, enlarged at apex; bracteoles 2, linear-spatulate, ca. as long as ovary, soon caducous, disk and stamens as in male but stamens sterile. Bisexual flowers similar to female but with fertile stamens; stigmas 3. Drupe orange to red when ripe, drying pale blackish, subglobose or pear-shaped, 4.5-10 mm in diam.