Habit: rapidly scandent/twining, protandrous shrubs: new shoots and leaves silky white hairy; glabrescent. Leaves: adult leaves mainly narrow elliptic, slightly falcate, 40–60 mm long, 4–10 mm wide, rapidly glabrescent; petioles 2–4 mm long. Inflorescences mostly solitary bisexual flowers; flower stalks 18–40 mm long, very slender, nodding. Sepals 6–10 mm long, linear, unequal, greenish yellow. Petals 16–20 mm long, clawed, only briefly connivent, green-yellow, apices and throat becoming tinged navy blue with age and sex phase change, apices recurving. Stamens, free, filaments white, tapering, longer than anthers; anthers sagittate, dehiscing through apical slits; pollen mauve. Pistil with prominent basal nectary; ovary cylindrical, glabrous, twice length of style; stigma knobby. Fruits are true berries, bilocular with seeds embedded in fleshy pulp in two rows in each chamber; 16–20 mm long, cylindrical; nodding on slender peduncles, oblongish, green, glabrous; seeds 2–3 mm long, angular reniform, striate. Flowering late Spring and Summer.
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A twining or scrambling plant. It grows 0.5-1.5 m high and 0.5-1 m wide. The leaves are green, narrow and sword shaped. They are 2-5 cm long. They are slightly hairy and wavy along the edges. The flowers are yellow-green. They are bell shaped. The fruit are 2-3 cm long and oblong in shape. They are yellow-green.
Prefers moist sites, usually near the coast, in eucalypt forest and woodland. Locally abundant in swamp-forests and along river banks.
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It is a temperate plant. It grows in dry sclerophyll forest. Tasmania Herbarium.
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