Scrambling vine with twining stems, glabrous except inflorescences; latex clear. Leaves thin, soft to firm; petiole channelled, 10–25 mm long; lamina oblong-ovate, 6–14 cm long, 2.5–6.5 cm wide, rounded at base, shortly acuminate to a fine point or mucronate, green, ± concolorous; secondary veins 7–13 pairs, raised below, with coarser net veins distinct above. Inflorescences usually axillary, of pedunculate panicles with 8–20 flowers, much shorter than leaves; axes minutely hairy; pedicels 3–4.5 mm long, shortly hairy. Calyx lobes slender, shortly hairy, appressed. Corolla white or yellowish; tube 2–2.6 mm long; lobes spreading to semi-erect, lanceolate, 3.2–4.2 mm long, glabrous externally, with numerous retrorse hairs internally, mainly towards base. Anther cone 2.2–3 mm long, with tip exserted; filaments c. 1.2 mm long, straight; anther tails slightly divergent. Nectary scales free, c. 0.7 mm long. Capsules striate, narrowly ovoid, 11–13 cm long, 1.5–3 cm diam.
Grows in dry rainforest, open forest with eucalypts and casuarinas, and coastal windswept heath and vine thickets, usually in sandy soils.
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