Scrambling shrub or vine; branchlets often zig-zag. Leaves: petiole (3–) 5–10 mm long; lamina ovate-elliptic, elliptic, broadly lanceolate to obovate, (3–) 4.5–12 cm long, (1.5–) 2.5–6 cm wide, glossy green above, paler and duller below, glabrous, margin entire or shallowly serrate/crenate, often somewhat undulate, c. 7–9 pairs of lateral veins, glands irregularly globular, dark red when dry, some pellucid dots often present. Inflorescence axillary, racemes 0.5–2 cm long. Flowers 3–7 per raceme, 4-merous; pedicel 3–6 mm long; calyx tube 0.3–0.5 mm long, lobes to 1 mm long, black dots present; petals cream, strongly reflexed to 3.2 mm long, densely papillose on inside, black dots present; filaments in male flowers 1–2 mm long, anthers 0.5–0.7 mm long, wart-like glands absent; ovary in female flowers c. 1 mm diam. Fruit globular, (5–) 6.5–9.5 (–12) mm diam., often somewhat ribbed and warty, red to purplish black. Seed 5–8 mm diam., embryo c. 4 mm long.
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