Evergreen woody climber or scandent shrub, up to 10 m. Twigs glabrous; flowering twigs up to 5 mm diam., glabrous or ± pubescent. Buds ovoid, up to 2 mm, acute; scales glabrous or with few hairs, ± ciliolate. Leaves elliptic-oblong to sublanceolate, 6-19 by 2-8(-10) cm, index 2-3(-4), pergamentaceous to pergamentaceous-coriaceous, above and beneath glabrous or with some hairs on midrib; base acute to rounded, apex acute, acuminate; nerves 4-7(-8) pairs, patent, curved to straight; petiole up to 2.5 cm, glabrous to sparsely pubescent, ± (fine-) wrinkled. Cymes arranged in an axillary, up to 12 cm long, glabrous to pubescent, thryrsoid inflorescence, subtended by bracts or sometimes by small leaves and then inflorescence up to 17 cm long; cymes up to 3 cm, forming a lax to dense cluster of 3—10(—12) flowers, subglabrous to pubescent. Bracts ovate to sublanceolate, up to 5 mm, subglabrous to more or less pubescent, ± ciliolate; bracteoles as bracts but smaller, or bracteoles minute or sepal-like and then 1 situated near calyx; pedicel up to 4 mm. Flowers green to yellow or white. Sepals sometimes 6 (see bracteoles), ± ovate or broad-ovate, 0.75-1 (-1.25) by 0.5-0.8(-l) mm, acute to obtuse, ± pubescent, ciliolate. Petals oblong, 2.5-3.5(-4) by 1-1.5 mm, I obtuse, nerves up to 5, often dark-coloured and then conspicuous. Stamens (1—)1.25—1.5 mm; filament I ± flattened, (0.75-)l-1.25 mm long, 0.25-0.5 mm wide; anther globular to ellipsoid, 0.2-0.3 mm, inflexed. Disk crown-shaped; ribs sometimes faint or absent. Pistil 0.8-1.2 mm; style ± conical, 0.2-0.5 mm, much shorter than the adjacent side(s) of the drupelet(s); ovary globular to subreniform, 0.5-0.6 by 0.5-0.7 mm, glabrous. Drupelets obovoid or [sometimes globular, ± compressed, 9-11 by 9-10 mm, without persistent petals and stamens at the base; reticulate pattern often coarse and limited to: the margin. Embryo with somewhat undulated or: faintly folded cotyledons.
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