Tree 4.5–21 (–27) m. tall with spreading crown, less often shrubby; bole often crooked, usually hollow, sometimes fluted; bark pale grey or reddish and grey, finely furrowed; slash soft pale brown to white, yellowish towards wood with scattered orange-brown flecks; branches ± horizontal; branchlets sparsely pubescent and glandular then glabrous, less often ± densely pubescent.. Leaves mostly in whorls of 4, less often paired; blades ovate, oblong or elliptic, 4.5–20.5 cm. long, 3–13(–17) cm. wide, acuminate at the apex, rounded, cuneate or subcordate at the base, glabrous above and pubescent beneath on main nerves, later glabrescent or rarely densely pubescent all over (see note), glandular-punctate; midrib impressed above and the ± parallel venation mostly finely prominent; all main venation prominent beneath; petiole 3–10 cm. long.. Flowers small in large thyrsoid panicles 12–30 cm. long, the main branches in whorls of 2–5, 3–9 cm. long; bracts linear to lanceolate, 0.2–1 cm. long; pedicels obsolete or under 1 mm. long.. Calyx 1.5–2 mm. long, truncate or obscurely 2-lipped, glabrescent to pubescent.. Corolla white, sometimes tinged green or ? mauve, glabrous outside; tube 2–2.5(–3) mm. long; lobes 1 mm. long, ± semicircular, tomentose-pubescent inside.. Anthers brown, just exserted.. Fruits green turning purple, globose, 4–5 mm. diameter; calycine cup shallow, 3.5 mm. diameter.
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A small tree or climbing shrub. It can be 21 m tall. The flowers are white. The fruit are green and turn purple.
A small tree up to 40 ft. high or (?) climbing shrub
Flowers white, very small in copious panicles.
Forests, mainly in margins and clearings; bushland and grassland, at elevations up to 2,100 metres.
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