Evergreen lianescent shrub or shrub.. Branches dark brown to black, glabrous or glabrescent, with small rather inconspicuous lenticels; branchlets, stipules and petioles densely golden-brown velutinous or hispidulous.. Stipules narrowly triangular to subulate, entire, sometimes dentate or bifid to trifid, (2–)4–8(–10) mm. long, rather long-persistent, glabrescent.. Petiole 2–4 mm. long; blade elliptic, sometimes ovate or obovate, ± 2 times as long as wide, 3–9(–13) × (1.5–)2–4(–6) cm., usually cordate, sometimes obtuse at base, apiculate or mucronate, sometimes shortly acuminate at apex, both surfaces with rather long subappressed hairs, often more densely so on midrib and main lateral nerves, glabrescent with age, lateral nerves 6–9 on each side of the midrib, subimpressed and rather obscure above, prominent beneath; glands, when present, few, rather inconspicuous, beneath only, mainly concentrated near base and near tip, the leaf-margin often somewhat revolute, especially so in lower half.. Inflorescence a scorpioid cyme, but usually rather small and few-flowered and therefore not recognizable as such, sessile or nearly so, up to ± 20-flowered, densely velutinous to tomentose; peduncle up to 4 mm. long; bracts and bracteoles narrowly triangular-subulate, 1–4 mm. long; pedicel up to ± 3 mm. long, the upper part at most 0.5 mm. long.. Sepals from erect to reflexed, oblong or nearly so, 2–3.5 × ± 1 mm., obtuse to acutish, tomentose outside, puberulous-tomentellous mainly on apical part inside.. Petals erect, spathulate in outline, 2.5–4.5 mm. long, split ± 0.5 mm., glabrous or variously hairy below split on one or both sides.. Stamens erect, as long as the petals or slightly shorter, glabrous.. Pistil 2-merous, 2.5–5 mm. long; ovary densely velutinous; style hairy in the lower part, shortly 2-lobed at tip.. Fruits 1–2-seeded, densely velutinous to tomentose, orange at maturity; 1-seeded fruits: subellipsoid, ± 2 cm. long and 1 cm. in diameter.
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Leaf-lamina 4–10 × 2–5 cm., elliptic or ovate-oblong, pubescent on both surfaces when young, later glabrescent above, acute or obtuse and mucronate at the apex, subcordate or rounded at the base; lateral nerves 6–7 pairs, slightly prominent above, very prominent below; petiole 2–4 mm. long, with fulvous hairs; stipules linear, c. 5 mm. long, deciduous.
Shrub c. 1·5 m. tall; branchlets tomentose when young with dense rusty-brown hairs, older branches glabrescent.
Cymes shortly pedunculate or subsessile; pedicels c. 2 mm. long, hirsute; bracteoles small, hirsute.
Petals c. 3·5 mm. long, spathulate or obovate, 2-lobed, glabrous; squamulous glands short.
Ovary ovoid-globose, tomentose; style c. 4 mm. long, glabrous, shortly 3-lobed.
Sepals c. 2 mm. long, retroflexed, tomentose outside, glabrous inside.
Fruit ovoid-oblong, densely fulvous-pilose, apex obliquely acuminate.
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