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Climber or scrambler, 0.3-5.0 m high; branches long, slender, pubescent, becoming glabrous; spines glabrous, recurved. Leaves alternate, spirally arranged, puberulous to glabrous; narrowly elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, bluntly pointed, often emarginate, margins undulate or crisped; petioles pubescent. Inflorescence axillary corymbs, pedicellate. Sepals broadly obovate, glabrous. Petals obovate to oblong, slightly falcate. Stamens 20-30 in male flowers, ± 10 in bisexual flowers. Ovary ovoid. Fruit a spherical berry, orange-brown, glabrous.
Leaf-lamina 2.5–6.0 x 0.4–1.7 cm., narrowly oblong-lanceolate, blunt and minutely emarginate at the apex, rounded at the base, glabrous on both sides or the midrib downy; midrib immersed above, prominent below, lateral nerves inconspicuous; petiole up to 5 mm. long, somewhat channelled and pubescent on the upper side.
Flowers sweet-scented, in axillary 4–10-flowered racemes as long as the leaves or shorter, or the uppermost in leafless panicles; pedicels up to 8 mm. long, slender, pubescent; bracts up to 1.5 mm. long, pubescent, linear.
Stamens up to c. 30 with filaments c. 6 mm. long; plants often with staminate flowers only, fertile flowers usually with fewer stamens and these caducous.
Petals yellow, as long as the sepals, broadly oblong, rounded at the apex, sparsely pubescent towards the base within.
A thorny climber or trailing bush with the young branches flexuous and pubescent.
Fruit orange or red, up to 1.7 cm. in diam., globose, several-seeded.
Sepals up to 5 mm. long, rotund-ovate, rounded at the apex, glabrous.
Ovary ovoid; stigma capitate on a very short style.
Gynophore up to 6 mm. long.
