Scrambling shrub or climber to 1 m. tall; stems reddish when young, later grey, somewhat angled and ridged, glabrous, usually leafless when flowering; tendrils few, 3.5 cm. long.. Leaves ovate, 1–3.5 cm. long, 0.7–2 cm. wide, narrowly rounded to acute and apiculate at the apex, truncate or slightly subcordate at the base, glabrous; petiole 2–6 mm. long; stipules ± ovate, 1–1.5 mm. long, acute, ± auriculate.. Inflorescences graceful, much branched, (1–)2.5–4 cm. long, glabrous; peduncle and axes purple, 1–8 mm. long; pedicels 2–3 mm. long, glabrous; bracts 1 mm. long.. Calyx plate-like, 1.2 mm. diameter, entire or slightly erose, glabrous.. Petals green, ovate, 2 mm. long, 1.2 mm. wide, glabrous.. Disk yellow-green.. Style 1 mm. long.. Fruits green turning greenish pink then eventually dark purple, ellipsoid, 1.2 cm. long, 5–7 mm. wide when dry, ± beaked at apex and constricted at base, with a glaucous bloom.. Seed compressed-ellipsoid, 8 mm. long, 6 mm. wide.
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