Climber. Branchlets weakly or strongly angled, sparsely lenticellate or not, glabrous. Leaves in whorls of 3-6; petiole 0-1 cm long, glabrous or pubescent; blade coriaceous or subcoriaceous, elliptic, obovate or oblong, 2.1-16 by 0.6-8 cm, 2-3.8 times as long as wide, apex emarginate to shortly acuminate or cuspidate, base acute to decurrent onto petiole, margin weakly undulate, glabrous beneath, glabrous or puberulent only on midrib above, not punctate beneath, secondary veins 42-92 pairs, 65-75° from midrib. Inflorescence axillary, a compound pleiochasium with clear internodes, with several clear internodes and unbranched side branches, or large lax panicles frequently branched, glabrous or sparsely to densely puberulent, 2-7.5 cm long; peduncle 0.8-2.8 cm by 1.2-1.6 mm; bracts persistent, ovate or deltoid, 1.2-1.5 by 1-1.2 mm; bracteoles present, one immediately beneath calyx; flowers 12-80; pedicels 0.6-1.5 mm long. Sepals often fused around the base, ovate, 1-1.2 by 0.7-1 mm, 1.2-1.4 times as long as wide, apex rounded to acute, ciliate or not ciliate, glabrous or sparsely puberulent outside. Corolla yellow or tube dark yellow and lobes white; bud head c. 1 mm long which is 0.33 of bud length, ovate, apex obtuse or acute; tube slightly inflated, c. 2.1 by 0.9 mm, 1.75 times as long as sepals, 1.6 times as long as lobes, glabrous outside, pubescent in a band below the stamens inside or sparsely pubescent around stamens and more densely in a band beneath them inside; lobes elliptic, c. 1.3 by 0.9 mm, 1.4 times as long as wide, apex rounded or obtuse, base auriculate, glabrous outside and inside, not ciliate. Stamens inserted at c. 1.2 mm from corolla base which is 0.52 of tube length; filaments c. 0.3 mm long; anther apex 0-0.3 mm from corolla mouth, anthers 0.8 by 0.3-0.4 mm. Ovaries 0.5-0.8 mm high, glabrous, pubescent only on top or in a tuft between the carpels; style 0.6 mm long; style head 0.5 mm long. Fruit black, yellow-orange or orange, stalks 1.4-5 mm long, with 1-4 articles in a string, 1.5-4.6 mm between articles, glabrous, sparsely puberulent at ends or all over, articles dry smooth or with thin flesh, 5.5-20 by 4.9-11.5 mm, ellipsoid or subglobose, symmetrical, apex rounded, obtuse or apiculate. Seeds 4.8-20.5 by 4.1-18.4 by 3.4-4.3 mm.
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