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All parts minutely puberulous to glabrous; branches of indeterminate length, slender, prominently ribbed, often pendent and then leaves reflexed. Leaves c. 6-50 x 2.5-15 mm, smaller upwards, thick-textured, dark green, narrowly to broadly elliptic, tapering at both ends, apex acute; petiole up to 4 mm long, articulated to a small cushion. Bract leaf-like; bracteoles 2, opposite, c. 1 mm long, linear-lanceolate. Peduncles c. 0.5-4 mm long. Perianth pale yellow to greenish, leathery, with 5 ± distinct ribs running from the centre of each lobe to the ovary, external glands at base of perianth either well developed or not; tube cylindric, 3.5-6.5 mm long; lobes 1.2-2.3 mm long, spreading, ovate, acute, tips slightly hooded. Stamens: filaments 0.8-1.5 mm long; anthers 0.7-1 mm long. Ovary ± turbinate, strongly 5-ribbed; style 4.5-7.7 mm long, cylindric, thick; stigma visible in mouth. Fruit c. 5-6 mm in diameter, bony but the epicarp fleshy, eventually creamy-white.
Climbing shrub, 1-4 m high; stems scandent with long, slender branches. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, oblong to lanceolate, 3-nerved. Inflorescence a terminal raceme, with small bracteoles. Flowers bisexual, small, green, subtended by 1 bract and 2 minute bracteoles. Perianth: tube cylindrical, adnate to ovary below; lobes 5, with tuft of hairs attached to back of anthers. Stamens 5; anthers ovoid. Disc obscure. Ovary: ovules 2 or 3, pendulous from apex of a flexuous, filiform, central placenta; style simple; stigma capitate. Fruit a drupe, crowned with persistent perianth lobes.
Perianth pale yellow to greenish, leathery, with 5 ± distinct ribs running from the centre of each lobe to the ovary, external glands at base of perianth either well developed or not; tube cylindric, 3.5–6.5 mm long; lobes 1.2–2.3 mm long, spreading, ovate, acute, tips slightly hooded.
Leaves c. 6–50 × 2.5–15 mm, smaller upwards, thick-textured, dark green, narrowly to broadly elliptic, tapering at both ends, apex acute; petiole up to 4 mm long, articulated to a small cushion.
Climbing shrub with stems 3 or 4 m long. Stems striate, twigs with very few leaves. Underside of leaf with 3 prominent veins from base. Flowers greenish white or yellow.
Ovary ± turbinate, strongly 5-ribbed; style 4.5–7.7 mm long, cylindric, thick; stigma visible in mouth.
Branches of indeterminate length, slender, prominently ribbed, often pendent and then leaves reflexed.
Fruit c. 5–6 mm in diameter, bony but the epicarp fleshy, eventually creamy-white.
Bract leaf-like; bracteoles 2, opposite, c. 1 mm long, linear-lanceolate.
Stamens: filaments 0.8–1.5 mm long; anthers 0.7–1 mm long.
All parts minutely puberulous to glabrous.
Peduncles c. 0.5–4 mm long.
