Scandent or seldom erect shrubs, 1-7 m high, bark greyish to brown, more or less smooth; branches patent, spreading at about right angles or reflexed, straight or ascending and leafy at the ends, studded below with old leaf scars, young branches thinly strigose very soon becoming glabrous. Leaves alternate, strigose when young, glabrous or sparsely strigose when mature, leaf-blade 3-6 cm long and 1-2 cm broad, oblanceolate to obovate, glossy when fresh, dark green above, paler below, thinly coriaceous; midrib raised below, strigose to glabrous, secondary nerves rarely raised below or finely traced and not raised, apex rounded to acute; base distinctly cuneate, gradually merging into the petiole, petioles 0.5-8 cm long. Flowers dioecious, female and functionally male, solitary, or in few-flowered inflorescences, 1 cm long and 6 mm wide, cream in colour; peduncle 1-2.5 cm long, sparsely strigose-pubescent, thickened above; bracts 2, linear to linear-lanceolate, strigose, borne on upper part of the peduncle. Calyx sparsely strigose to sericeous, segments ovate-deltoid to lanceolate-oblong, joined at the base. Corolla sparsely to densely strigose or glabrous; tube about one third the length of the lobes; lobes oblong; apices rounded. Stamens 10, about 4 mm long; anthers linear-lanceolate, hairy on the connectives and at the base, filaments short, broad, glabrous, reduced to staminodes in the female flowers. Ovary velvety-pubescent, subglobose, usually 10-celled, with a single ovule in each cell; style hairy, branches 5, glabrous at the apex; disc not very distinct. Fruit subglobose, velvety, 1 cm long by 1.2 cm broad; calyx accrescent, as long as (or longer)than the fruit, partially reflexed but usually not strongly reflexed, segments ovate-acute, rather thin, striate, up to 2 cm long and 1 cm broad. Seeds 3-8, dull brown, oblong in outline, circumvented by a thin line, endosperm flinty, not ruminate.
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A shrub tending to scramble, or an erect small tree with drooping branches, up to 7 m in height. Bark: grey to brown, rather smooth; branches at right angles to the stem, rough with old leaf-scars; young branchlets with bristly hairs at right angles, straight or bent backwards, almost spine-like. Leaves: spirally arranged, clustered towards the ends of the branchlets, oblanceolate to obovate, 3-6 x 1-2 cm, sometimes up to 20 x 8 cm, thinly leathery, with or without sparse hairs, glossy dark green above, paler below, lateral veins hardly visible; apex broadly tapering to rounded; base narrowly tapering; margin entire; petiole 5-8 mm long. Flowers: white to cream, up to 10 mm long, on stalks up to 2.5 cm long, axillary, solitary or in 2-or 3-flowered clusters (Jun.-Sept.). Fruit: almost round, up to 1.5 cm in diameter, fleshy, velvety orange-brown, persistent calyx with 4 or 5 slender lobes as long as or longer than the berry, not clasping the base, tending to spread horizontally sideways but not curling backwards (Oct.-Jun.). Seeds: 3-8, oblong, dull brown.
Shrub or climber, 1-7 m high. Leaves alternate, petiolate, oblanceolate to obovate, coriaceous; glossy, dark green above, paler below; strigose when young, glabrous or sparingly strigose when mature. Bracts 2, linear to linear-lanceolate, on upper part of peduncle, strigose. Flowers solitary or in few-flowered inflorescence; stamens 10, staminodes in female flower; ovary subglobose, style hairy. Flowering time all year. Fruit subglobose, velvety. Seed 3-8, dull brown, oblong, circumvented by a thin line.
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