Plant pendulous, glabrous or undersides of leaves and rarely inflorescences with a sparse brown indumentum. Internodes angular when young, usually terete at maturity. Leaves broadly lanceolate to ovate, acute to rounded; lamina 6-15 cm long (in Australian specimens), 3.5-6 cm wide, shining above, dull below, recurved at margin, contracted at base into distinct terete petiole 6-18 mm long; midrib raised and prominent on abaxial surface and lateral veins distinct on upper surface. Inflorescence axis up to 60 mm long, elongating in fruit, with 5-10 pairs of triads on peduncles 1.5-5 mm long; pedicels of lateral flowers c. 1 mm long; bracts c. 1.5 mm long, obtuse. Calyx 0.3 mm long, minutely lobed. Corolla in mature bud 30-50 mm long, yellow to red; petals united in lower 4 mm. Anthers 3-4 mm long, about equal to free part of filament. Fruit nearly globose, 7-10 mm long.