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Leaf-lamina 3–6 × 1·5–3 cm., elliptic or lanceolate-elliptic, acute to acuminate at the apex, margin serrate, rounded or subcordate at the base, subglabrous, with minute scattered appressed-stellate hairs on both sides; petiole 0·2–0·3 cm. long, pubescent; stipules up to 5 mm. long, subulate to linear, slightly pubescent.
A shrub or small tree. It grows 10 m high. The stem is fluted and grey. The leaves are oval and 8 cm long. There are teeth along the edge. The flowers are yellow and there are usually 3 flowers in a group in the axils of leaves. The fruit is round, shiny and mottled. They are 6 mm across.
Shrub or small tree up to 8 m. tall or liane climbing over tall trees; young branches pubescent, soon becoming glabrous; older stems 3–4-angled, blackish and sometimes developing stout spine-like bosses.
Petals yellow, slightly shorter than the sepals, glabrous except for the nectariferous base, which is up to 1 mm. long circumvillous within and setose-pubescent on the back.
Inflorescences all axillary; peduncles c. 5 mm. long, slightly pubescent; pedicels usually 3 together, c. 5 mm. long, slightly pubescent.
Sepals up to 1·2 cm. long, linear-oblong, sparsely pubescent and greenish outside, yellow and glabrous within.
Ovary ovoid, pubescent, not at all lobed; style c. 7 mm. long, glabrous, with 4 subulate stigma-lobes.
Androgynophore 1 mm. long, glabrous and shallowly cup-like at the apex, clasping the ovary.
Fruit 5–8 mm. in diam., globose, not lobed, yellowish, very minutely stellate-pubescent.
Flower-buds oblong, hardly swollen at the base.
