Small twiner with thin finely hairy stems; latex clear. Leaves glabrous, rather thin; petiole 2–8 mm long; lamina oblong-lanceolate, elliptic or oblong-ovate, 1.5–6 cm long, 0.5–3 cm wide, cordate at base, crisped or occasionally finely toothed, shortly acuminate at apex; upper surface glossy with major veins raised; lower surface paler. Inflorescence of axillary, few-flowered, open cymes; axes puberulous; pedicels 4–6 mm long. Calyx lobes appressed, deltoid, c. 1 mm long, glabrous. Corolla cream, tinged lilac; tube cylindrical in upper half, inflated in lower half, 2.5–3 mm long, glabrous; lobes widely spreading, ovate-lanceolate, 2.5–3 mm long, apically recurved, glabrous externally, shortly pubescent internally. Anther cone 3 mm long, enclosed or tip exserted; filaments straight; anther tails divergent. Nectary scales free, narrow, thin, c. 0.7 mm long. Capsules slender, narrowly fusiform, 5–13 cm long, 0.5–1 cm diam., glabrous.
Grows in subtropical rainforestof drier type, often with Araucaria cunninghamii, often in basalt-derived soils; found at altitudes up to 700m.
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