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Scandent shrubs or lianas, 3-4 m tall. Branchlets ferruginous villous, old branches glabrous, black-brown, with sparsely gray rounded lenticels. Stipules linear, 5-7 mm, pilose, deciduous; petioles 4-5 mm, strigose; leaf blade papery or subleathery, oblong or oblong-elliptic, 8-17 × 3-9 cm, ferruginous villous abaxially, glabrous adaxially, except midrib and lateral veins ferruginous strigose, lateral veins 6-9 pairs, base cuneate, broadly cuneate, or slightly rounded, margin entire, apex acuminate. Cymes axillary, sessile, 0.75-1 cm, many flowered, ferruginous villous. Flowers bisexual, shortly pedicellate. Sepals oblong, 3-4 mm, densely gray pubescent on exterior. Petals white, bifid, subspatulate, ca. 5 mm, glabrous, apex 2-lobed. Stamens ca. 5 mm. Glands small, quadrangular, shallowly 2-lobed, ca. 0.5 mm, glabrous. Ovary brown pubescent, 2-or 3-locular; style exceeding stamens, apex 3-lobed. Drupe obcordate or elliptic, oblique, ca. 2 cm in diam., densely ferruginous pubescent, without distinct sutures. Fl. throughout year, mainly Oct-Mar, fr. Jan-Jun.
A shrub or creeper. It grows 3-4 m tall. It loses its leaves during the year. The leaves are simple and alternate. They are arranged in spirals. They are oblong and 8-17 cm long by 3-9 cm wide. They have rusty hairs underneath. The flowers are small and usually contain both sexes. The petals are white. The fruit is fleshy and orange or yellow. It is 2 cm across. It has rusty hairs. There is one seed.
