Glabrous lianoid shrub to 2 m high. Spines stipular, to 2 (–3) cm long, apically weakly hooked on long shoots, much smaller on flowering ones. Leaves simple, ovate or obovate to elliptic, 3.5–8.0 cm long, weakly crenulate distally, obtuse to emarginate, coriaceous. Racemes of sweetly scented flowers (frequently galled), to 2.5 cm long; axis puberulous; pedicels 1–3 mm long. Calyx 3-lobed, c. 1 cm long. Petals 3, lanceolate-oblong, 2.5–4 mm long, obtuse, white to cream. Stamens 6, c. 3 mm long; filaments flattened. Berry spherical, c. 1 cm. diam., yellow-orange. Seeds usually 2, round, somewhat flattened.
Found in monsoon forest and vine thickets on sandstone or basalt, among boulder scree, on stabilised sand dunes; often very common and sometimes forming the understorey.
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