Habit Chioccoca stricta grows as an erect shrub to 2 meters in height. The leaves are arranged oppositely, ovate to elliptic, to 4 cm in length, with an obtuse leaf apex and an entire margin. The stipules are connate with bristle teeth.
C. stricta differs from C. alba by having branches ascending rather than at 90-degree angles to the stem (C. alba).
The complete, perfect, actinomorphic flowers are arranged in few flowered racemes. The calyx has 5 unfused sepals. The corolla has 5 fused, white petals. There are 5 stamens. The ovary is inferior with 2 locules. The fruit is a compressed, few seeded, berry that is white at maturity.
Habitat: Chioccoca stricta grows as an understory shrub in Pine Woodlands and grasslands.
Distribution: Chioccoca stricta is endemic to the Lucayan Archipelago known only from Cat Island.
Medicinal/Cultural/Economic usage: Chioccoca stricta is not known to be used medicinally in the Bahamas.