Rhizomatous gregarious shrublets, scandent shrublets or lianes, up to 2 m high. Stems green and densely pubescent when young, becoming woody and glabrous with age, bearing discoid leaf scars. Leaves alternate; dark green on adaxial side, greyish on abaxial side, coriaceous, both sides slightly hairy, veins densely pubescent on both sides, with whitish colour; lamina elliptic to broadly oblong, up to 40-90 x 20-50 mm, apex obtuse to rounded, retuse or mucronulate, base cuneate when elliptic, truncate when oblong, margin entire; venation palmate, with 3 to 5 prominent veins from base; midrib, lateral veins and teriary reticulate venation sunken above, prominently raised below; petiole up to 25 mm long, densely pubescent. Male flowers in 1 to 3-flowered axillary cymules; pedicel 2.0-3.5 mm long; bracts linear to lanceolate, 0.6 mm long, densely pubescent on abaxial side; sepals lanceolate or ovate, 9 (or 6), in 3 (or 2) whorls, slightly fleshy, abaxially densely pubescent, those of the outer two whorls free, those of innermost whorl fused halfway up; sepals of outer whorl small, 0.7 x 0.4 mm, those of middle whorl larger, 1.1 x 0.4 mm and those of inner whorl largest, 3 x 1.4 mm; petals 6, in 2 whorls, free, fleshy, much smaller than sepals, 0.5 x 0.9 mm, transversely oblong-reniform, inflexed at the base, abaxially pilose, adaxially glabrous; synandrium stalked, up to 5.5 mm long, 18-24-locular in 6-8 vertical rows, extrorse, anthers horizontally dehiscent. Female flowers axillary and solitary; pedicel 1.5-3.5 mm long; bracts, sepals and petals as in male flower; carpels 5(6), free, 1.8 mm long, woolly; style extended and undivided. Fruit sessile, ellipsoid drupes, radiating from margin of a swollen carpophore, on peduncle 4-5 mm long, brightly orange when ripe, pubescent, 22 x 15 mm; endocarp not horseshoe-shaped, parchment-like, wrinkled; condyle absent. Seed obovoid-oblong, 8-11 x 4-5 mm.
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A creeper or shrub with a rhizome. The stems are long and woolly. They are twining. The leaves are simple and alternate. They are oblong and narrow to the base. They are dark green on the upper surface and more pale underneath. The edges can be slightly wavy. The male flowers can be in groups of 1-3 in the axils of the leaves and the female flowers occur singly. They are 5 mm long. The fruit are oval, fleshy and yellow to orange. They have short hairs and are flattened on one side.
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