Evergreen shrubs (scandent) to small trees, to 8 m tall; branches gray-green to gray-brown, terete, glabrous, twigs green to light green. Petiole ca. 4 mm; leaf blade papery or papery, ovate to elliptic, 8-12 × 3-5 cm, base and apex acuminate or acute, margin crenulate; lateral veins ca. 4 pairs, slightly curved upward, disappearing before reaching margin. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, with many flowers, up to 8 cm, ca. 6 cm in diam. Flowers 4-merous, ca. 7 mm in diam.; petals greenish yellow or yellowish green, nearly orbicular. Capsule globose or subglobose, brown or yellow-brown, 4-lobed. Seeds dark brown; aril orange. Fl. Mar-Jun, fr. Jul-Nov.
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