Shrubs scandent, 10-15 m, glabrous or pubescent. Branchlets terete. Leaves opposite or nearly so, 3-foliolate, sometimes simple by reduction of lateral leaflets at base of inflorescences;petiole 1-4.5 cm, glabrous to puberulent; terminal leaflet with petiolule 0.5-4.5 cm; leaflet blade elliptic, ovate, to lanceolate, rarely suborbicular, 3.5-16 × 1-9 cm, leathery, base rounded orcuneate, apex obtuse to caudate; primary veins 5-7 on each side of midrib, very obscure. Compound cymes often paniculate, terminal or axillary, many flowered, congested or open;bracts linear, 1-5 mm. Flowers heterostylous. Pedicel 0-5 mm. Calyx tubular, enlarged in fruit; lobes deltate or subtruncate. Corolla white, salverform; tube 1.7-3.5 cm; lobes 4 or 5,lanceolate to oblong, 5-10 mm. Berry black, drying orange-yellow, globose or ellipsoid, 0.6-1.8 × 0.6-1.5 cm. Fl. Apr-Oct, fr. Jun-Mar. 2n = 26*.
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A shrub. It often lies over. The leaves are opposite and have 3 leaflets. The leaflets are oval and 4-16 cm long by 1-5 cm wide. The flowers are in compound groups. The fruit is a black berry.
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