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Leaf blade 5–15 × 2–7.5 cm, narrowly elliptic to round or sometimes ovate to broadly ovate, acuminate or less often obtuse to acute and frequently apiculate at the apex, obtuse rounded truncate or rarely subcordate at the base, usually chartaceous or occasionally almost subcoriaceous, dull or sometimes shiny on upper surface, entirely glabrous with the nerves pubescent beneath or glabrescent to pubescent beneath; lateral nerves in 7–9(10) main pairs; tertiary venation coarsely reticulate; domatia usually present as hairy tufts; petiole 5–15 mm, glabrous to pubescent; stipules 4–12 mm long, with a triangular base topped by a subulate to linear lobe; leaves subtending lateral branches smaller but scarcely differing in shape.
A shrub or small tree. It can be a woody creeper. It grows 2-6 m tall. The bark is pale grey. The leaves are oval and the base is often unequal and rounded. They have a short blunt tip. Leaves are 5-12 cm long by 2-7 cm wide. The flowers are white or yellowish-green. The fruit are oval or heart shaped and 10-12 mm long. They have 2 seeds.
Flowers sweetly scented, 4–5-merous, borne in 30–60-flowered pedunculate cymes; peduncles 5–15 mm long, glabrescent to sparsely pubescent; pedicels 2–8 mm long, glabrescent to densely pubescent; bracteoles up to 2 mm long.
Corolla white; tube 2–3.25 mm long, with a ring of deflexed hairs above the mid-point inside; lobes 1.5–2.75 × 1–1.5 mm, oblong-lanceolate, acute to obtuse.
Pyrene 8–11 × 7.5–8 mm, broadly ellipsoid with ventral face flattened; area above point of attachment on ventral plane circular with a central crest.
Calyx tube 0.75–1 mm long, glabrous to densely pubescent; limb dentate 0.5–1 mm long, glabrous except for the ciliate teeth or sometimes pubescent.
Scandent shrubs, small trees or lianas; young stems glabrous to sparsely pubescent or very occasionally pubescent; bark pale greyish.
Fruit 8–13 × 12–17 mm, oblong or obcordate in outline.
Pollen presenter 0.5–1.25 mm long; disk pubescent.
Style 5–8 mm long, glabrous or pubescent.
Anthers fully exserted, erect.
