Liana up to 20 m, rarely small shrub or tree up to c. 6 m. Stipules triangular, c. 0.5 mm long. Leaves chartaceous, elliptic, broad-elliptic, elliptic-or obovate-oblong, 3½-13 by 2⅓-5.5 cm; base cuneate; apex acuminate, short-cuspidate; margin crenulate; nerves 6-8 pairs; petiole 3-8 mm. Flowers dull or greenish yellow, axillary, fascicled, or on short bracteolate tubercles. Bracts triangular, ½-1 mm long, short-fimbriate. Pedicels 2-6 mm. Calyx lobes triangular, c. 0.5 mm long, short-fimbriate. Petals broad-obovate, 1.75-2 by 1-1.75 mm, sometimes slightly keeled outside, with reddish brown pigment in the tissue, sometimes slightly contracted at the base and with one or 2 depressions near the apex inside, margin erose. Disk fleshy, annular-pulvinate, slightly broader at the base (in young flowers the disk slightly, gradually narrowed towards the apex of the pistil), 0.5-1 mm high, 1-1⅓ mm ø. Stamens 2 (once found a flower with 3), c. ⅔ mm; anthers ± transversely dehiscent. Pistil c. 0.5 mm emerging from the disk, compressed. Ovary 2-celled. Ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit globose, 1-1.75 cm ø, bright red or orange, usually 1-seeded. Seed globose, 0.75-1.5 cm ø.
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Liane or (not in Australia) rarely an erect shrub. Leaves elliptic, oblanceolate or oblong-obovate, acuminate, serrulate-crenulate or subentire, chartaceous, glabrous; lamina mostly 5-10 cm long and 2-4 cm wide; base acutely cuneate or attenuate; secondary veins mostly 6-8 pairs; petiole 6-8 mm long. Flowers (not seen in Australian specimens) in fascicles on short bracteate tubercles; pedicels 2-6 mm long. Calyx lobes 5, rounded-deltoid, c. 0.5 mm long. Petals obovate, 1.7-2 mm long. Disc 1-1.3 mm diam., 0.5-1 mm high. Stamens 2. Ovary 2-locular with 2 pendulous ovules per locule. Fruit globose, 13-17 mm diam., orange to pink-red, 1-or rarely 2-seeded. Seeds globose, 7-15 mm diam.
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