Glabrous shrub or small tree, to 8 m tall. Stipules lanceolate, 4-6 mm long; petioles 5-12 mm long; blades variable, lanceolate to oblong-elliptic to rarely obovate, acuminate, nearly rounded to cuneate at base, 5-22 cm long, 2-7.5 cm wide, the margins serrate to serrulate; veins not raised except midrib below. Inflorescences racemose, terminal or upper-axillary, 2-14 cm long, bracteate especially at base, the bracts lanceolate, to 5 mm long; pedicels 5-10 mm long, articulate at base; flowers 5-parted in bud; sepals 5-7 (9) mm long, ovate; petals obovate, to 9 mm long, soon falling; stamens 10, connivent; anthers subsessile, subulate, to 5 mm long; style ca 6 mm long, subpersistent. Fruits of 5 elliptic drupelets, black at maturity, to 10 mm long, sessile on a receptacle, the receptacle prominent, +/- rounded or club-shaped, red; seeds 1 per drupelet. Croat 8727. Frequent in the forest. Flowers from the late rainy season to the middle of the dry season (October to March). The fruits mature primarily in the dry season (December to April), though the receptacle may well persist until July.