Shrub 1-2 m tall. Leaves 1.5-3.5 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, ovate to elliptic, glossy, tip pointed. Flowers cup-shaped, to about 0.5 cm wide. Sepals narrow, curled back. Petals pale pink, fragrant; summer. Fruit a round, russet to blue-black berry about 6 mm wide with persistent sepals. Syn. Myrtus ugni Mol.

Chile, Argentina.

Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Myrtaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.