Medinilla balls-headleyi F.Muell.

Liane, rarely a small tree to 7 m high. Leaves generally verticillate, ovate to obovate, 3-veined, glabrous; lamina c. 7–14 cm long and 4–7 cm wide; narrowly elliptic-lanceolate and 1-veined on juvenile plants. Inflorescence axillary or cauline, umbellate, usually 4-flowered. Flowers 5-merous. Hypanthium ovoid to somewhat triangular, c. 8–10 mm long and 6–8 mm diam. Calyx lobes reduced to 5 small teeth. Petals white to pale pink. Stamens 10, anisomorphic; anthers curved, generally 12 mm long in larger stamens and 6 mm long in smaller stamens, narrowly to shortly rostrate; connective prolongation very short, with a filiform dorsal appendage and a bilobed ventral appendage. Ovary 5-locular, glabrous. Fruit globose at maturity, to 15 mm diam., pale pink becoming purple.

A tropical plant. It occurs in rainforest in NE Queensland in Australia. It grows at high altitudes. It needs well drained soil. In tropical Queensland it grows from sea level to 450 m altitude.

Plants can be grown from seeds or cuttings. It can be trained to climb a trellis or pruned to form a bush.