Small tree, shrub or climbing shrub, 1.2-1.8(-6) m. tall; bark papery, peeling, hairy.. Leaf-blade ovate to obovate, 6-12.5 cm. long, 3.1-7 cm. wide, acute to shortly acuminate or occasionally mucronate, cuneate or rarely±rounded at base, shallowly±regularly toothed in upper 1/2-2/3, membranous (to chartaceous in the fruiting state), hairy above and beneath when young, mature leaves with indumentum usually confined to nerves and margins above and beneath; main nerves distinct, (5-)7-9 on either side of midrib, each vein running into a marginal tooth and ending in a mucro; petiole±1/4 the length of the leaf-blade, 1.5-2.9 cm. long, densely pubescent.. Inflorescence a narrow little-branched, straggling many-flowered axillary panicle up to 1/2 the length of the subtending leaf, minutely pubescent.. Flower hermaphrodite, with or without red gland-dots or streaks, 5-6-merous; pedicels 1-3.5 mm. long, pubescent with 2 paired narrowly lanceolate pubescent bracteoles.. Calyx campanulate; tube almost obsolete; lobes ovate,±1 mm. long, with minutely ciliate margins.. Corolla white or creamy yellow, 2-3 mm. long; lobes ovate, united at base, glabrous.. Stamens adnate to corolla a short way below anther; anthers ovate, emarginate, less than 1 mm. long.. Ovary inferior; placenta ovoid, usually markedly apiculate; ovules few to many, embedded in 1 row around basal part of placenta; style usually slightly curved; stigma cushion-shaped, occasionally lobed.. Fruit a globose berry, yellow-brown, crowned by persistent calyx and style, 7 mm. in diameter, sparsely hairy.. Seeds resembling those of M. lanceolata in surface texture.. Fig. 1/1-8.
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