Climber. Branchlets weakly or strongly angled, sparsely lenticellate or not, glabrous or sparsely and minutely puberulent, glabrescent. Leaves in whorls of 3 or 4; petiole 0.3-1.1 cm long, glabrous or pubescent; blade coriaceous or subcoriaceous, elliptic, obovate or oblong, 3.1-18 by 1.1-7.8 cm, 1.5-3.8 times as long as wide, apex obtuse to acuminate or cuspidate, base obtuse to decurrent onto petiole, margin strongly undulate or not, glabrous beneath, glabrous or puberulent only on midrib above, not punctate beneath, secondary veins 15-55 pairs, 60-80° from midrib. Inflorescence axillary, a compound pleiochasium, either congested or with clear internodes, or with several internodes and unbranched side branches, sparsely puberulent in upper parts to densely puberulent all over, 1-7.8 cm long; peduncle 0.8-3 cm by 0.9-2 mm; bracts caducous or persistent, ovate or deltoid, 1.1-3 by 0.8-2.2 mm; bracteoles absent; flowers 6-14; pedicels 0-3.5 mm long. Sepals ovate, 0.8-2.7 by 0.6-1.3 mm, 1.1-2.1 times as long as wide, apex obtuse to acuminate, ciliate, glabrous to densely puberulent. Corolla cream, yellow, with a brown tube and green or white lobes or with a yellowish tube and white lobes; bud head 0.8-2.1 mm long which is 0.29-0.38 of bud length, globular, ovate or deltoid, apex rounded to acute; tube cylindrical or slightly inflated, 2.5-5.8 by 1.2-2 mm, 1.3-3.9 times as long as sepals, 1.5-2.5 times as long as lobes, sparsely to densely puberulent around top of tube to densely puberulent for most of outside, glabrous, sparsely pubescent around stamens and more densely in a band beneath them or very sparsely pubescent in upper half of tube inside; lobes ovate or orbicular, apex rounded or obtuse, base auriculate, 1.2-2.4 by 1-3 mm, 0.8-1.6 times as long as wide, sparsely or densely puberulent outside, glabrous, pubescent at base of lobes or papillate inside, ciliate or not ciliate. Stamens inserted at 2-3.2 mm from corolla base which is 0.57-0.65 of tube length; filaments 0.3-0.7 mm long; anther apex 0-0.5 mm from corolla mouth; anthers 0.8-1.3 by 0.3-0.5 mm. Ovaries 0.5-1 mm high, densely pubescent all over; style 1-1.6 mm long; style head 0.4-0.8 mm long, glabrous or pubescent. Fruit yellow, black, yellow-orange, orange, orange turning black, green to bright orange, finally dark purple, or orange-brown (most likely these recorded fruit colours all suggest an orangish or yellowish fruit which turns black or dark purple when mature), stalks 2.4-8.1 mm long, with 1-3 articles in each string, glabrous, articles dry smooth, fleshy or with thin flesh, 12.5-34 by 9.6-20 mm, ellipsoid or subglobose, symmetrical, apex rounded to acuminate. Seeds 10.8-30 by 7.3-15 by 6.9-12 mm.
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