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Leaf blades 4–15.5 × 2–7(8.5) cm, elliptic or less often broadly elliptic or oblanceolate, acuminate at apex, obtuse to rounded and often unequal at the base, frequently bullate or with the lateral nerves impressed above, very sparsely to sparsely covered with strigose hairs above, more densely or occasionally sparsely covered with hairs beneath; domatia frequently absent or as straw-coloured hairs; petiole 0.2–1.8 cm long, pubescent; stipules 7–15 mm long, broad at the base, laciniate with (3)5–9(12) lobes above, with long hairs outside, glabrous inside, sometimes reflexing.
A climber in the tree canopy. It can be 6 m tall. The leaves are opposite and broadly sword shaped. They are shiny and dark green above and paler with yellow hairs underneath. The flowers are in dense clusters. They are small and white. They have a strong scent. The fruit are 5-9 mm across. They are yellow or orange. They turn purple-black when ripe.
Flowers 5-merous in hemispherical or less often shortly pyramidal, terminal panicles; lateral inflorescence branches in 1–2(3) pairs, 0.3–2.4 (4 in fruit) cm long, densely covered with gold-to rust-coloured hairs; pedicels 0–1.5 mm long; bracteoles numerous, 2–11 mm long, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, usually exceeding the calyx, pubescent.
Scandent shrub or climber or sometimes a ?suffrutex, 1.8–6 m tall; young branches usually densely covered with ± gold-to rust-coloured hairs, becoming glabrous with age; older branches with greyish-fawn bark.
Calyx tube 0.75–1 mm long, glabrous; limb 0.25–1 mm long; lobes 1.25–4 mm long, up to 1 mm wide at base, narrowly lanceolate or narrowly triangular, sparsely pubescent or glabrescent.
Seed 4.25–5 mm in diameter, sometimes with irregular shallow longitudinal striations, very pale pinkish when fresh darkening to reddish-black to blackish.
Corolla glabrous outside; tube 4–9 mm long; lobes 2.25–3.5 × (1)1.25–2(2.75) mm, ovate to rotund, rounded or less often obtuse at apex.
Fruit 5–9 mm in diameter, yellow, orange or red, glabrous, with a corky scar left by the deciduous calyx limb.
Pollen presenter 2–3 mm long, fusiform, well exserted.
