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A shrub which is often a scrambler or small tree. It can reach 10 m in height. The bark is dark and almost black. The branches are long and trailing. There are several pairs of wide spreading leaves. The leaves are oblong with a square or heart shaped base. The leaves are oval and 11 cm long by 5 cm wide. They are dark green. There are hairs along the veins especially underneath. The base is lobed. The leaf stalk is 5 mm long. The flowers are in loose clusters. These are in the axils of leaves with branching stalks. The flowers are white and cone shaped. The flowers are cream and have a sweet smell. They occur in heads in the axils of leaves. The fruit can be single or have 2 lobes. They are 1 cm long by 1.4 cm wide. They occur in dense clusters. They are dark when mature. The fruit are edible.
Scrambling shrub or climber, 2-7 m high; young branches with crisped, ± rust-coloured hairs. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to ovate, up to 135 x 36 mm; domatia present as tufts of hair; petioles up to 7 mm long. Flowers 5-merous, in axillary, pedunculate cymes, hairy as above; peduncles up to 5 mm; pedicels up to 7 mm long. Calyx: tube 1 mm long. Corolla creamy white; tube with a ring of white hairs in mouth; lobes oblong-lanceolate to ovate. Anthers exserted. Style up to 10 mm long; pollen presenter ovoid, 1.7 mm long, narrowly winged. Flowering time Oct.-Dec. Fruit up to 9 x 14 mm, black when mature; mostly of 2 pyrenes, ± obovoid.
Leaf blades 5.5–13.5 × 3.5–6 cm, oblong-lanceolate to ovate, acuminate at apex, rounded, truncate or more frequently subcordate to cordate at base, often bullate, usually drying brown, glabrous to sparsely pubescent on upper surface, glabrescent to densely pubescent beneath; lateral nerves in 6–9 main pairs; tertiary venation finely reticulate; domatia present as tufts of hair; petioles 3–7 mm long sparsely to densely covered with crisped or patent hairs; stipules 9–13 mm long, up to 6 mm wide at base, lanceolate to ovate, gradually acuminate, pubescent outside; leaves subtending lateral branches smaller, orbicular.
Climber or scandent shrub, up to 5 m high. Leaves sparsely to densely hairy, leaf bases rounded, cordate or subcordate. Stipules narrowly ovate to ovate. Bracts linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 3-6 mm long. Calyx limb dentate, up to 1.5 mm long. Flowers white, cream or yellow.
Flowers 5-merous, borne in 20–50-flowered pedunculate cymes; peduncles 5–15 mm long, sparsely to densely pubescent; pedicels 5–7 mm long, pubescent to densely pubescent; bracteoles 3–6 mm long, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate.
Calyx tube 1 mm long, densely covered with straight or crisped hairs or occasionally glabrescent; limb 1.25–1.5 mm long, divided into teeth for one third to half its length, glabrescent to sparsely pubescent, usually ciliate.
Corolla creamy-white; tube 2.25–4 mm long, with a ring of deflexed hairs just below the throat inside; lobes 2.5–4 × 1.25–2.25 mm, oblong-lanceolate to ovate, acute and thickened at apex.
Scandent shrub or liana, 3–25 m tall; young branches sparsely to densely covered with crisped or spreading golden to rust-coloured hairs.
Pyrene 9–11 × 6–7 mm, obovoid with ventral face flattened or hemispherical; lid-like area lying across the apex with a central crest.
Fruit 7–9 × 11–14 mm, broadly oblong in outline, slightly indented at apex, glabrous to glabrescent, black when mature.
Pollen presenter 1.25–2.25 mm long; disk pubescent.
Seed with endosperm streaked with granules.
Anthers fully exserted but seldom reflexed.
Style 5–10 mm long, glabrous.
