Slender shrub,scandent with tendrils, up to 5 m. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to-elliptic or-obovate, apex acuminate to rounded, though minutely cuspidate by the protruding midrib, base rounded to subcordate, slightly inequilateral, thin chartaceous, glabrous above the midrib excepted, which is covered on both faces with a pale rusty short villous tomentum equally found on the branchlets and petioles, undersurface ± densely covered with stiff appressed hairs on nerves, veins and veinlets, the proper intervenium glabrous, (5-)6-15 by (2.5-)3-6.5 cm, midrib and nerves generally slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, nerves 6-8 pairs, curved-ascending and inarching, reticulation of veins rather coarse, that of the veinlets more dense though rather faintly raised beneath; petiole 3-15 mm. Inflorescences all over covered with both rusty short strigose and softer hairs, the ♂ ones repeatedly dichotomous, many-flowered, up to 10 cm, the ♀ ones consisting of 8-16-flowered cymes and only 1.5-4 cm (incl. peduncle). Pedicels slender, swollen distally, the very end finally plate-like dilated when the flower has gone, 1-3 mm. Calyx 5-lobed to ½-⅔, c. 1.5 mm. Petals 5, oblong, white or light yellow, tip extended and inflexed, c. 2.5 mm in the ♂, lanceolate and acute (not inflexed) and c. 2 mm in the ♀ flowers, laxly appressed-strigose outside as is the calyx. ♂ Flowers: Stamens 5; filaments slender, c. 0.6 mm; anthers subovate-oblong, c. 1 mm, cells with crenate-lobed margin. Rudiment of ovary hairy. ♀ Flowers: Staminodes 0. Ovary thick-cylindric, all over densely appressedly hairy, 2 mm; stigma discoid, wider than the ovary, deeply incised on one side, margin crenulate, glabrous. Drupe inequally ovoid-compressed, said to be scarlet and to attain 1.5-2.5 cm in length (seen in immature state only up to 1 cm); endocarp with slightly prominent, not properly keeled ribs.
Along border of woods, in shrubberies, along roads or riversides, often in secondary vegetation, once in teak-forest (Margasari), sometimes on limestone, 50-300(-800) m. Fl. fr. Jan.-Dec.
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