臺灣特有種，常綠灌木或小喬木。小樹枝細長，下垂或斜上昇狀，圓柱形，綠色，嫩莖葉呈紅色。單葉，輪生或簇生於小枝的先端，倒卵形或卵狀長橢圓形，革質，全緣。花少數，不顯著，黃綠色，頂生或近似頂生細長的聚繖狀圓錐花序；花期10~11月。核果扁平球形，熟時由綠轉為紫黑色。

Taiwan endemic species, evergreen shrubs or small trees. Slender branchlets sagging or obliquely rising, cylindrical, and green. New stems and leaves are red. Leaves are simple, whorled or clustered in the apex of branchlets, obovate or ovate-elliptic, leathery and entire. Flowers are few, not conspicuous, yellow-green, terminal or nearly terminally slender umbellate panicles; flowering period from October to November. The drupe is flat and spherical and turns from green to purple-black when mature.

耐熱、耐旱、耐風、耐貧瘠、耐塩。種子繁殖或扦插繁殖。

Tolerant to heat, drought, wind, barrenness, and salt. Propagated by seeding or cutting.

可供作庭園景觀樹、綠籬、防風樹。木材可供建材。

The plant can be garden landscape trees, hedges, and windbreaks and the timber can be used as building materials.