Where found:

• Coastal and lowland forest
  
• Common component of understorey and forest margins
  

• A bushy, branching shrub with slender, rather brittle branches
  
• Pale green, shiny, opposite leaves (5-7cm x 2-4cm) are ovate/broad narrowing to a tip, pale undersurfaces with prominent raised veins
  
• Small (6mm) light green hairy flowers
  
• Fruit is a capsule 5-10mm x 5mm and hangs on drooping stalks after flowering, black when ripe