Shrubs scandent or climbing, to 3 m tall. Branchlets spreading, yellow, turning pale brown, glabrous. Stipules lanceolate, ca. 3 mm, basally connate; petiole 6-10 mm, glabrous; leaf blade abaxially grayish green when dry, adaxially green, ovate-elliptic or ovate-oblong, 2-6.5 × 1.5-3.5 cm, papery, both surfaces glabrous, lateral veins 7-9(or 10) pairs, veins slightly prominent on both surfaces, base rounded or subcordate, apex obtuse-rounded or acute, mucronulate. Inflorescences 3-5 cm, glabrous. Flowers green, glabrous, usually 2-or 3-fascicled in subsessile or shortly pedunculate lax cymose racemes, rarely narrowly cymose panicles. Pedicels 2-3 mm, glabrous. Sepals triangular, margin ciliate, apex acuminate. Petals obovate. Drupe red when young, black-purple at maturity, narrowly cylindric, 7-9 mm, 3.5-4 mm in diam., with persistent cup-shaped disk at base; fruiting pedicel 2-3 mm, glabrous. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Apr-Jun of following year.
Forests in valleys, forest margins, thickets; at elevations from 300-2,200 metres.
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