Tall climber. Young stems tomentose to densely pilose. Leaves: petiole 0.5–6 cm long; lamina usually ovate to elliptic or broadly elliptic, 5–13 cm long, 2–8 cm wide, sometimes hastate at base, whitish-tomentose to ferruginous-pilose below, with 1 or 2 pairs of basal veins. Inflorescences subracemose, 2–3 cm long, tomentose. Male flowers: pedicel 2–4 mm long, tomentose; sepals 7 or 8, cream, with inner ones broadly elliptic and 2.5–3 mm long, ciliolate or glabrous, the outermost pubescent; petals 3 or 4, obovate, 1.75 mm long; stamens 9–12, 1.75–2 mm long. Female flowers: carpels 2 or 3, 1.25 mm long; stigma convoluted. Drupes subglobose, 5 mm diam., red, glabrous; endocarp smooth, with a deeply curved groove on each lateral face, imperforate.
Grows in rainforest, notophyll and mesophyll vine forest, low eucalypt woodland and growing on shrubs on sand dunes, mostly in sandy soil, to 740 m alt.
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