Scandent shrub or vine, with scattered rusty hairs on young branchlets. Leaves: petiole (0.6–) 1.5–2.4 cm long; lamina usually broadly elliptic to ovate-elliptic, (2.6–) 5–12 (–18.5) cm long, (2.2–) 3.5–7.5 cm wide, thinly coriaceous, discolorous, ± shiny above, margin entire or with coarse teeth (sometimes with c. 6 coarse teeth in the upper half), c. 5–9 pairs of lateral veins, glands orange-red to red with some pellucid, irregularly globular. Inflorescence axillary, paniculate, to 9 cm long, female longer than male; peduncle papillose. Flowers 13–17 per raceme, 4-merous; pedicel 0.5–1.5 mm long, extending in fruit; calyx tube 0.3 mm long, lobes 0.7–1.3 mm long; petals cream to orange, to 2 mm long, papillose inner surface, scattered dark glandular dots; filaments in male flowers 2 mm long, anthers 0.4–0.7 mm long, wart-like glands absent; ovary in female flowers globose, c. 1 mm diam. Fruit globular, c. 4 mm diam., often slightly ribbed when dry, red. Seed c. 3.5 mm diam.
Grows chiefly in monsoon forests and vine thickets, also in open riparian vegetation, often near creeks.
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