Plants shrubby, to 5 m tall. Stem simple; internodes often longer than wide. Leaves spaced along distal part of stem, distinctly petiolate; petiole 4--8 cm, base neither enlarged nor covering internode; leaf blade elliptic-lanceolate or broadly oblanceolate, 25--40 × 6--7 cm, midvein distinct. Inflorescence terminal, branched, 30--60 cm; rachis glabrous. Flowers in clusters of 2--4; pedicel 8--10 mm, articulate at middle. Perianth white, 1.8--2 cm; tube ca. 8 mm; lobes 1--1.2 cm. Filaments filiform; anthers ca. 2 mm. Style filiform, much longer than ovary. Berry orange, globose, 1.5--2 cm in diam., 3-furrowed. Fl. Apr--May, fr. Sep--Nov.
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