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A vine or climber. It can be 10 m tall. The stems are erect but is leans of plants nearby. The leaves are pointed at both ends and carried alternately.Young shoots have silvery scales. The leaves are simple and 3-15 cm long by 3-5 cm wide. The leaves are silvery underneath. The flowers are in spikes or clusters in the axils of leaves or at the ends of branches. The flowers are 0.5 cm across. The fruit is 2 cm long by 1.2 cm wide. They hang singly or in bunches in the axils of leaves. There is one seed inside. It is 1.8 cm long by 0.8 cm wide. The flesh of the fruit is edible.
Shrubs, scandent. Young branches and buds silvery brown. Petiole 6-11 mm; leaf blade ovate, elliptic, or nearly orbicular, 5-12 × 4-6 cm, papery, lateral veins 5-8 per side of midrib, base obtuse or rounded, apex acute. Flowers solitary in axils of long shoots and 2-5 in a shortened raceme. Fruiting pedicel pendulous, slender. Flowers white. Calyx tube cup-shaped, ca. 3.5 mm; lobes triangular-ovate. Filaments ca. 0.5 mm; anthers elliptic, ca. 1.5 mm. Style 2-2.5 mm, glabrous. Drupe broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid, 1.8-2 cm. Seed 1.6-1.9 cm.
