Shrub to 3 m high. Shoots and branchlets rusty-puberulous. Leaves: petiole 1–3 (–7) mm long; lamina elliptic or narrowly obovate, 4.5–16 cm long, 1.5–5 cm wide, rounded or obtuse and slightly asymmetric at base, acute, obtuse or acuminate at apex, glabrous above, sparsely appressed-pubescent, glabrescent below; secondary veins 7–12 pairs. Flowers supra-axillary or leaf-opposed, solitary or paired, fragrant; peduncle 1–2 mm long; pedicel 12–16 mm long, appressed-pubescent; bracts ovate, 1 mm long. Sepals 3, broadly ovate, 2.5–3 mm long, (2–) 3–3.5 mm wide, pubescent outside. Petals 6 in 2 whorls of 3, cream or white. Outer petals triangular, c. 5–7 mm long, c. 5–6 mm wide, sparsely pubescent outside. Inner petals oblong or angular-obovate, convex outside, slightly concave inside, 4.5–5.5 mm long, 3.2–3.5 mm wide (c. 6–7 × 4 mm, fide Zich et al. 2020), puberulous outside, glabrous inside, fused to form an arch (shelter) over the stamens and ovaries. Stamens 38–40, 1.2 mm long. Carpels 9; ovaries 2–10 (fide Zich et al. 2020), c. 0.8 mm long; ovules 1 or 2 per ovary; stigmas coherent, angular obconical. Apocarps in clusters of 2–11, ± globular to ovoid, 7–11 mm diam., 7–9 mm wide, red; stipe 1–3 mm long. Seed 1 (2).
Grows in mesophyll, notophyll and microphyll vine forests and thickets; rainforest, gallery forest, littoral rainforest.
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