Woody scrambler; new shoots sparsely silky hairy, glabrescent. Intermediate stage leaves broadly elliptic, 40–50 mm long, 15–25 mm wide. Adult leaves almost oblong, 43–70 mm long, 10–20 mm wide, briefly petiolate (1–4 mm long). Inflorescences solitary or very few bisexual flowers on short shoots; flower stalks 8–14 mm long. Sepals 4–5 mm long, basally thickened, angular. Petals 14–16 mm long, briefly cohering, white to pale yellow, developing dark blue blotches from the throat, apices spreading, not recurving. Stamens free, often one vestigial; filaments tapering; anthers sagittate; pollen pink-purple. Pistil glabrous, not stipitate, bilocular; style short. Fruit berry-like with seeds in separate dry cells encased in papery liners, slightly obovate, 20–25 mm long, epicarp thick, dark purple. Seeds many, minutely pitted and bullate.
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