A slender shrub, tree or climber up to 3 m high with olive-yellow to green twigs. Leaves simple, sessile, olive-yellow to green; lamina linear, very narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate, 5-12 cm long, 0.3-1.1 cm wide, apex acute, obtuse or round, apiculate, base narrowing into a channelled 'petiole', margins entire, midrib prominent on lower surface, lateral veins immersed to fairly prominent or both surfaces, reticulate, coriaceous, glabrous. Inflorescence consisting of 6-9-flowered congested lateral and terminal racemes; pedicels 5-7 mm long. Receptacle cylindric-campanulate, 4-5 mm long, 3-5 mm diam. at mouth, conspicuously 12-ribbed, glabrous; disc lobed, with lobes laterally compressed, laciniate, c. 1 mm long, incurved and surrounding androphore. Sepals oblong-obovate, 7-9 mm long, 4-5 mm wide, apex obtuse, apiculate and somewhat cucullate, margin woolly. Petals 0. Androphore 6.0-7.5 mm long, exserted 2-3.5 mm from receptacle. Stamens 27-30, 9-12 mm long; anthers oblong, 1-1.3 mm long. Gynophore 1.1-1.9 cm long. Ovary ellipsoid, rather sharp-pointed apically, 1.2-4.0 mm long; ovules 10-20; stigma capitate. Fruit broadly ellipsoid-subglobose, up to 1-5 cm long and 1-4 cm diam., faintly colliculate. Seeds 1-5, globose-reniform, 4 mm long, crustaceous, smooth.
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A twiggy shrub, scrambler or small tree. It grows 3-10 m high. The twigs are green. The leaves are simple and do not have stalks. They are very narrowly oval. They are 5-12 cm long by 1 cm wide. The flowers are in groups of 6-9. The fruit is broadly oval and 1-5 cm long by 1-4 cm wide. There are 1-5 seeds. They are kidney shaped and 4 mm long.
Shrub or small evergreen tree, up to 3 m tall, with olive-yellow to green twigs. Leaves linear to narrowly obovate, 50-120 x 3-11 mm, leathery. Flowers in racemes, whitish green to yellowish, stamens up to 30 mm long. Fruit ± spherical, ± 15 mm diam., covered with faint round bumps, brownish.
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