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Racemes 2·5–3 cm. long, 15–35–flowered, cylindrical, borne on lateral short shoots on old wood proximal to current year’s leaves, densely pubescent with short gland–tipped hairs; pedicels 3–6 mm. long, each subtended by a triangular bract c. 1 mm. long, with triangular to ovate lobes c. 2 x length of tube, glandular–pubescent, often with a few black resin–dots on abaxial side; petals free, 2·6–3·2 mm. long, oblong to narrowly ovate, white, cream–coloured, greenish or yellowish, sparsely to densely glandular–pubescent especially on margin and inner surface, often with black resin–dots on abaxial side.
A small tree. It can be a shrubby climber. It grows 7 m tall. The bark is smooth and red-brown. The twigs have raised dots. The leaves are arranged in spirals and crowded at the ends of branches. The leaves vary a lot in shape. The leaves are oval and 8 cm long by 4 cm wide. There are 15 or more side veins. The flowers are small and green-white. There are many fruit on stalks. They are 6 cm across. They are red when ripe. There is one seed inside.
Leaves 2·5–10 x 1·5–6 cm., elliptic, obovate or suborbicular, apiculate, acute, obtuse or emarginate at apex, almost truncate to tapering at base, entire, clustered at ends of branches; petiole 0·5–1 cm. long; lamina glossy, pale to dark green, thinly fleshy to coriaceous, inconspicuously to prominently nerved, with or without obvious black resin–dots (these punctate or shortly linear), glabrous.
Male flower: stamens functional; anthers 1–1·2 mm. long, oblong, yellow, with black dot on outer side near point of attachment; filament adnate to petal for a variable distance (up to middle of petal), elongating during anthesis so that the anther is eventually well exserted from flower; gynoecium 0·8– 1·2 mm. long, rudimentary.
Scandent shrub or liane climbing to 6 m. by means of hard persistent lateral short shoots, with long trailing branches up to 5 cm. or more in diameter; young stems glabrous; bark greyish or blackish, that of twigs longitudinally furrowed, with prominent lenticels.
Female flower: stamens as in male flower but anthers triangular, functionless and filaments scarcely elongating; gynoecium 3–3·2 mm. long, clavate, the stigma conspicuously lobed.
Fruit c. 5 mm. in diameter, globose or compressed–globose, 1–seeded, greenish at first becoming scarlet when ripe.
Hermaphrodite flower with stamens as in male flower and ovary as in female flower.
Smooth leathery leaves tufted towards ends of the branches
Plants dioecious or more rarely flowers hermaphrodite.
Seed globose with basal cavity.
Straggling shrub or climber
Flowers whitish
Fruits red
