Evergreen shrubs, scandent; branches and twigs slender, striate, green or brown when dry. Petiole ca. 3 mm; leaf blade papery, ovate-elliptic, 8-10 × 3-4 cm, pubescent abaxially, base cuneate or attenuate, margin crenulate to serrate, apex acute or acuminate; lateral veins 5-7 pairs, slightly prominent abaxially, disappearing before reaching margin. Peduncle up to 4 cm, 1 or 2 × dichotomously branched, several flowered. Flowers 4-merous (not seen). Capsule yellow-brown when dry, nearly globose, 1-1.5 cm in diam., slightly 4-grooved, densely prickly, prickles ca. 3 mm. Aril orange. Fl. unknown, fr. May-Sep.
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