Vines woody, stout, glabrous. Branchlets terete, inconspicuously striped. Leaves opposite, simple; petiole 1-2 cm, twisted; leaf blade oblong to elliptic-lanceolate, 10-17 × 4-6.5 cm, leathery, base broadly cuneate to rounded, apex short acuminate or obtuse, sometimes cuspidate; primary veins 8 or 9 on each side of midrib, at 60-70° to midrib, slightly raised, often obscure abaxially. Cymes terminal or axillary, racemose or in few-branched panicles, 5-9-flowered; bracts linear, 2-3 mm. Pedicel 0.5-3.5 cm, flat and thickened upward. Calyx campanulate; lobes obtuse and subtruncate, enlarged in fruit. Corolla white, tube 1.5-1.8 cm; lobes 5, 8-10 mm. Berry green-white becoming orange-red, ovoid, 1-1.6 × 0.8-1.1 cm. Fr. Mar.
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