Plant with short semi-succulent trunk-like stem. Leaves clustered in upper part, suberect to spreading; lamina shining dark green above with irregular pale green areas along main veins. Fruit on peduncles much shorter than petioles and thus hidden below laminae, in sessile clusters at ends of peduncles to 13 mm long but still immature, broad ellipsoid or nearly so, glossy. Probably red when mature. Fairly common.