Large woody climber. Branchlets glabrous. Leaves: petiole 6-16 mm long; blade elliptic to obovate, rarely almost oblong, 4-17.5 by 1.2-7.3 cm, 1.5-4.7 times as long as wide, apex acuminate or obtuse and apiculate, glabrous above and beneath, base cuneate or decurrent onto petiole, 15-35 pairs of secondary veins, always visible but only sometimes prominent beneath, tertiary venation of weaker interstitial veins. Inflorescence axillary and terminal, 1.5-11.5 cm long, ultimate axes shorter but not so contracted as to appear umbelliform; peduncle 0.7-5 cm long, glabrous to minutely puberulent; pedicels 0.5-4.2 mm long, glabrous to minutely puberulent, bracteoles single or absent. Calyx 0.6-1 mm long, lobes 0.5-0.6 by 0.7-0.9 mm, 0.6-0.9 times as long as wide, apex rounded to obtuse, glabrous, ciliate. Corolla orange; tube 2.7-4 mm long, 3.1-5.8 times as long as sepals, 0.7-1.4 times as long as lobes, glabrous outside, densely pubescent below stamens; lobes elliptic or narrowly ovate, 2.2-4.5 by 1-1.6 mm, 1.7-4.1 times as long as wide, apex obliquely acute or acuminate, glabrous outside and inside. Stamens inserted at 1.4-2.1 mm from corolla base which is 0.3-0.6 of tube length; filaments 0.4-0.5 mm long; anthers 0.7-1.1 by 0.3-0.4 mm. Ovary 0.5-1.1 mm high; style and style head 0.8-1.5 mm long. Fruit ellipsoid to fusiform, 2.9-7 by 2.1-4.2 cm, apex apiculate. Seeds 6-9 by 4.5-8.2 by 2.5-5 mm.
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A woody climber. It grows 20 m long. The leaves are oblong. The leaf stalk is 1 cm long. The flowers are in groups in the axils of leaves. They are congested. The fruit is an orange berry. It can be lumpy. There are many seeds.
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