Climber. Branchlets strongly angled, sparsely lenticellate or not, glabrous. Leaves in whorls of 4-6; petiole 0-0.9 cm long, glabrous; blade coriaceous or subcoriaceous, obovate or spathulate, 4.3-11.7 by 1.5-4.1 cm, 2.1-3.3 times as long as wide, apex emarginate and not folded back, rounded, obtuse or cuspidate, base decurrent onto petiole, margin weakly undulate or not, glabrous beneath and above, not punctate beneath, secondary veins 19-43 pairs, 55-70° from midrib. Inflorescence axillary, a simple unbranched pleiochasium or with 1 or 2 internodes and unbranched side branches, delicate to robust, glabrous or sparsely puberulent in upper parts, 1.8-3.6 cm long; peduncle 0.6-2 cm by 1-2.1 mm; bracts caducous or persistent, deltoid or narrowly ovate, 1.6-2.4 by 1-1.6 mm; bracteoles absent; flowers 4-10; pedicels 0.5-6.5 mm long. Sepals ovate, 1.5-2 by 1.1-1.8 mm, 0.9-1.7 times as long as wide, apex rounded to acute, ciliate, glabrous outside. Corolla with pink tube and white lobes; bud head 3.1-3.2 mm long which is 0.34-0.39 of bud length, ellipsoid or ovate, apex acute to acuminate; tube cylindrical or slightly inflated, 6.3-6.9 by 1.4-2.2 mm, 3.4-4.4 times as long as sepals, 2-3.3 times as long as lobes, glabrous outside, sparsely pubescent around stamens and more densely in a band beneath them inside; lobes elliptic, ovate or orbicular, 2-3.5 by 1.7-2.6 mm, 1-1.7 times as long as wide, apex rounded to acute, base auriculate, glabrous outside, glabrous or pubescent at tips of lobes inside, not ciliate or ciliate near tips only. Stamens inserted at 4.1-5.1 mm from corolla base which is 0.59-0.69 of tube length; filaments 0.6-1.2 mm long; anther apex 0.6-1.2 mm from corolla mouth, anthers 1.4-1.9 by 0.5 mm. Ovaries 0.8-1.1 mm high, pubescent in tuft between carpels; style 2.6-3.4 mm long; style head 0.6-1 mm long. Fruit yellow turning black, stalks 1.7-3.5 mm long, with 1-3 articles in each string, 0-1.3 mm between articles, glabrous, articles with thin flesh, 8-13 by 6.2-8 mm, ellipsoid or globose, symmetrical, apex rounded. Seeds c. 8.6 by 4.4 by 4.3 mm.
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