Liana or scandent shrub, rarely small tree. Branchlets sometimes puberulous, usually whitish when dry. Stipules triangular, c. 0.5 mm long. Leaves sometimes spiral, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, usually shining on both surfaces, elliptic-oblong, or-lanceolate, narrow oblong-lanceolate, ovate to ovate-oblong, oblong, very rarely obovate-oblong, 7-34.5 by 2.5-11.5 cm; base obtuse, cuneate; apex acuminate, short-acuminate, or acute, very rarely rounded; margin entire, sometimes sparsely, slightly crenate; nerves 6-12 pairs; petiole 6—15 mm. Bracts triangular, c. 1 mm long, laciniate at the margin. Pedicels 3-6 mm. Flowers whitish or yellowish, 3-6 or rarely more on very short, axillary or extra-axillary, bracteolate tubercles, sometimes ramiflorous. Outer 2 calyx lobes smaller, deltoid or ovate, 1.25-2 mm long, the inner 3 suborbicular, sometimes slightly subreniform, 2-4 mm long, short-fimbriate. Petals spreading at anthesis, obovate, or obovate-elliptic, 4-7 by 3-6 mm. Disk brown when fresh, suborbicular, 0.5-1.75 mm high, 1.75-3 mm ø, fleshy, flat, convex in the central part, thin and rim-like towards the margin. Stamens 3, 0.5-2/3 mm; anthers transverse-oblong. Pistil c. 0.25 mm emerging from the disk. Ovary 3-celled. Ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit orange pink, 2.5-5 cm ø, rugose, subtended by the persistent calyx lobes and petals. Seeds 2 or more in each fruit, broad-ellipsoid, 1.5-2 by 1-1.5 cm.
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A sprawling shrub or woody creeper. The leaves are shiny on both surfaces. The fruit are orange and fleshy. They are 3-5 cm across. There are 2 or more seeds in each fruit.
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