Dioecious, glabrous vine. Leaves with petioles 0.3–1.5 cm long; lamina ovate, narrowly ovate or elliptic, 2.5–14.5 cm long, 1.4–7.5 cm wide; secondary veins 2 or 3, spaced along both sides of basal third of midvein; base cuneate to rounded; apex acute to acuminate. Spike solitary, leaf-opposed, erect; bracts circular. Male spikes cylindrical, slightly tapering apically, 2.5–4.5 cm long, 0.3–0.6 cm diam.; peduncle 0.4–0.6 cm long. Stamens 3; anthers each with 2 sets of bivalves concealed under fleshy apical tissue. Female spikes oblong; peduncle 0.2–1 cm long; bracts subsessile. Flowers cream. Stigmas 4, sessile. Fruit oblong-ovoid, 0.5–2 cm long, 0.5–1.4 cm diam., red and fleshy when mature. Seeds embedded within compound fruit.
A rainforest vine, sometimes forming a dense mass climbing over tree roots, tree trunks and boulders, occasionally reaching the canopy. Growing in lowland areas and to c. 1000 m alt., in mesophyll and notophyll vine forest, often in soils derived from granite.
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