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Climbing shrubs, to 4 m tall; branchlets angular. Petiole 8-10 mm; leaf blade elliptic, narrowly ovate-rotund or obovate-elliptic, (3-)5-11 × (1.5-)2-5 cm, leathery, abaxially brown-green when dry, adaxially shiny olive-green, base cuneate, margin sparsely denticulate, apex subacute to shortly acuminate; lateral veins 6 or 7 pairs. Fascicles axillary, 3-6-flowered; pedicel 6-10 mm. Sepals deltoid, up to 1 mm, margin ciliolate; petals broadly ovate, ca. 3 mm, broadly spreading or curved outward, apex rounded. Disk cupular, ca. 1 mm tall. Stamens 3; filaments short, flat, inserted at margin of disk; anthers forked. Ovary concealed in disk, 3-loculed; ovules 2 per locule; style very short, conic. Berry globose or ovate, ca. 1 cm in diam., red when ripe, 1-seeded. Fl. Dec, fr. Jan-Feb.
Liane or scandent shrub. Leaves broadly ovate, elliptic or lanceolate, obtuse, acute or acuminate, entire or serrulate-crenulate, subcoriaceous, glabrous, often discolorous; lamina 4-15 cm long, 2-8 cm wide; base obtusely cuneate or shortly attenuate; secondary veins 4-8 pairs; petiole 7-13 mm long. Flowers in fascicles; pedicels 5-12 mm long; buds obtuse. Calyx lobes broadly deltoid to semiorbicular, erose or entire, 0.5-0.7 mm long. Petals oblong-obovate with lateral margins recurved or revolute, or nearly orbicular and then shortly clawed, 3.5-4.5 mm long. Disc c. 3 mm diam., 1 mm high. Stamens 3; filaments c. 1 mm long. Ovary 3-locular with 2 ovules per locule centrally attached. Fruit subglobose or ellipsoidal, 13-23 mm diam., orange to red, with 1 globose seed 10-15 mm diam.
It is a woody climber. The small twigs are slender. New green shoots are flattened. The leaves are oval and produced opposite one another. They are leathery and dark green. They are 10-18 cm long by 4-6 cm wide. The veins in the leaf curve towards the leaf edge. The leaf stalk is 1 cm long. The flowers are greenish and small. They are produced singly or in clusters. They develop below the leaves on leafless twigs from small pads. The fruit is oval orange-red and 3 cm across. The fruit are edible. Fruit have one seed inside.
