Shrubs, evergreen, climbing, ca. 4 m or more tall. Branches slender, spines absent; old branches glabrous, glossy; young branches with dense brownish red scales. Petiole brown, 4-8 mm; leaf blade elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 5-9 × 1.2-5 cm, leathery, both surfaces scaly, adaxially glabrescent, lateral veins 7-10 per side of midrib, raised on both surfaces, inconspicuous abaxially, distinct adaxially, base rounded, margin very narrowly revolute, apex obtuse. Flowers solitary. Pedicel 3-6 mm. Flowers white, outside silvery scaly. Calyx tube broadly campanulate, 4-angled, 4-6 mm, conspicuously constricted above ovary; lobes ovate-triangular, 3.5-4.5 mm, inside white scaly, apex acute. Filaments ca. 1 mm; anthers oblong, ca. 1.2 mm. Style erect, glabrous; stigma short, thick. Drupe yellowish red, broadly ellipsoid, 1.5-2.2 cm. Fl. Oct-Nov, fr. Feb-Mar.
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An evergreen shrub. It grows 4 m tall. It can be climbing. The branches are slender and do not have spines. The leaves are 5-9 cm long by 2-5 cm wide. The flowers are white and occur singly. The fruit is yellowish red and broadly oval. They are 2 cm wide.
Mountain forests; at elevations below 1,000 metres. Wet valleys, streamside, montane forests or road sides; at elevations from 150-1,900 metres.
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In Yunnan in China it grows between 1400-1600 m above sea level. It grows in subtropical broadleaved evergreen forest.
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