Habit: woody scrambler, creeping rather than climbing; new shoots villous with uniseriate hairs. Leaves: clustering on short shoots, becoming alternatively arranged on ‘climbing’ shoots; almost sessile, initially spathulate becoming obovate or elliptic, 16.5–24 mm long, 5 mm wide; margins incurving; both surfaces waxy pale green, villous, undersurface streaked purple-red. Inflorescences solitary flowers; on medium hairy stalks 8–9 mm long, shorter than the flowers. Sepals imbricate, almost keeled at the base, 2–2.5 x 1.5 mm, broad ovate, margins ciliate, red purple, inner surface villous. Petals mostly less than 20 mm long, basally cohering only, cream yellow becoming wine red with age from blotching spreading from the throat and margins, apices slightly hairy, not recurving. Stamens free; anther filament ration 1 : 10, anthers ovoid; filaments wider around ovary. Pistil stipitate, small basal nectary, ovary 2.5–3.5 mm long, pubescent, appearing unilocular; style 7–9 mm long, slender. Fruit four-lobed, berry-like, with seeds in separate dry cells, ovate, c. 10 x 8 mm, epicarp thin, initially mostly bright red. Seeds free, 1.5 mm diam., angular globose, bullate. Flowering in summer.
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