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A twining shrub. It grows 2 m tall but can grow to a tree 10 m tall. It can be a woody climber. The bark is smooth and dark grey. Young branches are dark purple. The leaf blade is 7-15 cm long by 3-6 cm wide. It is dark glossy green but paler underneath. It is narrowly sword shaped. Many flowers occur in a group. They have a sweet scent. The petals are white. The fruit is wrinkled. It is red when ripe.
Leaf-lamina 7–15 × 2·5–5·5 cm., glossy dark green, pale below, drying blackish, narrowly lanceolate to elliptic, apex abruptly or gradually acuminate with obtuse acumen up to 2 cm. long, cuneate or slightly rounded at the base; midrib impressed above, prominent beneath; petiole c. 0·4 cm. long, wrinkled.
Flowers c. 6 mm. long in bud, sweet-scented, in 4 — many-flowered, supra-axillary fascicles; pedicels glabrous, ± equalling the flowers.
Fruit markedly reticulate-wrinkled, oblique on the stipe, broad-ovoid, red at maturity, drying glossy black.
A glabrous straggling evergreen shrub or woody liane; bark smooth, dark grey; young branches dark purple.
A glabrous scandent shrub, rarely arborescent
The whole plant goes black when dried
Ripe fruits red, shining, fleshy
Flowers white, fragrant
Petals white.
