Habit: Banara minutiflora grows as a shrub to small tree to 7 m in height. The often unequal glabrous leaves are arranged alternately, oblong to ovate, to 8 cm long, with a glandular serrate margin and acute leaf apex. The adaxial surface is often shiny.
The complete, perfect, actinomorphic flowers in corymbs. The calyx has 3 unfused, glandular pubescent green sepals. The corolla has 3 yellow unfused petals. There are numerous stamens. The superior ovary has 1 locule and multiple ovules. The fruit is a round, few seeded, red berry.
Habitat: Banara minutiflora grows in Dry Broadleaf Evergreen Formations – Forest/Shrubland (coppice) and Pine Woodlands.
Distribution: Banara minutiflora occurs throughout the north central Lucayan Archipelago and Cuba.
Medicinal/Cultural/Economic Usage: Banara minutiflora is not known to be used medicinally in the Lucayan Archipelago.