Climbing shrubs. Stems up to 8(-30) m long, usually with few hairs, prickles usually few, small, minute capitate brown hairs often present on vegetative parts and inflorescences. Leaves elliptic to ovate, 6.5-16 by (2.5-)3.5-8.5(-9.5) cm, not lobed, base rounded, margin serrate-cre-nate, apex acute or obtuse and then shortly or long acuminate, herbaceous, nervation pinnate with 5-8 pairs of nerves, the lowermost of these with up to 6 strong, basiscopic side nerves, rarely truly pedate, secondary nerves not reaching the margin, venation widely transverse, usually rather densely hairy on midrib and larger nerves above, lower surface with (semi-)appressed hairs on nerves and veins. Petiole 0.5-l(-3) cm long. Stipules early falling, 6-9 by 0.5-1.2 mm, apically 3-6-lobed, lobes up to 6 mm, hairy. Inflorescence broadly paniculate, a leafy compound raceme, up to 30 (-40) cm, with 9-16 primary laterals, the latter up to 12(—15) cm, with up to 10 side branches, usually being dichasia with up to 7 flowers. Bracts up to 9 by 1.5-2 mm, lobed. Pedicels 6-8(-10) mm long, densely hairy as are the other axes in the inflorescence. Flowers bisexual, flower buds ovoid, pointed. Hypanthium saucer-to cup-shaped, 3-5 mm across, shortly woolly outside, sometimes also with appressed, straight hairs. Sepals triangular to ovate, reflexed to horizontal during anthesis, 4-7(-11) by 2-4 mm, outer margins with 1 or 2 teeth or lobes of up to 2 mm, inner margins entire, indumentum outside as hypanthium. Petals elliptic to obovate, 2-5(-7) by 0.5-2(-3.5) mm, apex (sub)truncate, usually sinuate or notched, white. Stamens (40-)50-80(-100), filaments up to 6.5 mm, anthers 0.5-0.8 mm long, usually wider than long, violet. Pistils (3-)5-10(-17), ovaries usually with many long hairs on the dorsal side, rarely glabrous, on a low, long-hairy torus, styles up to 5.5(-7) mm long, rarely with some hairs in basal part. Collective fruits loose, usually less than half of the ovaries developing, c. 0.5 cm diam., sepals closing after anthesis. Fruits 3.5-4.5 mm long when dry, with some hairs, red, mesocarp rather thick and fleshy.
Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs stratification.
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