Evergreen or semievergreen shrubs, scandent, 2-3 m tall; branches and twigs slender, striate, angulate, brown or gray-brown when dry, sometimes black. Petiole short, ca. 3 mm; leaf blade thinly leathery, ovate, ca. 5 × 2-3 cm, base cuneate or truncate, margin sparsely serrate, apex acute or acuminate; lateral veins 6-8 pairs, sometimes impressed adaxially and prominent abaxially, disappearing before reaching margin. Peduncle 2-3 cm, 1-3-flowered; pedicel ca. 1 cm. Flowers 4-merous, 6-8 mm in diam.; sepals small, semirotund; petals orbicular, attenuate at base, greenish yellow. Capsule red when fresh, brown when dry, nearly globose, ca. 10 mm in diam., densely prickly, prickles 1-2 mm. Aril bright orange. Fl. Apr-Jul, fr. Sep-Jan.
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