Scandent shrub. Stipules lanceolate, 0.5-1 mm long, sometimes laciniate or short-fimbriate at the margin. Leaves elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, or ovate-oblong, 6-14.5 by 1.75-5 cm; base cuneate; apex short-acuminate to apiculate; margin crenulate; nerves 4-7 pairs; petiole 3-7 mm. Bracts triangular, obtuse, c. 0.75 mm long. Pedicels 4-4.5 mm. Flowers several in fascicles on an axillary, short, simple or sometimes once branched, bracteate brachyblast. Calyx lobes ± deltoid or suborbicular, c. ⅔ mm long, glandular or short-ciliate at the margin. Petals broad-elliptic, 1.5-2 by ⅔-1 mm, obtuse, slightly contracted at the base, margin lengthwise reflexed at anthesis, with 5-8 longitudinal veins elevated on the outer surface when dry. Disk fleshy, annular-pulvinate, c. ⅔-1 mm ø, c. ⅔ mm high. Ovary 3-celled. Stamens 3, c. 1 mm. Pistil c. 2/3 mm emerging from the disk. Ovules 2(-1) in each cell. Fruit subglobose, c. 1.5 cm ø, red. Seeds broad-ellipsoid, c. 9 by 7 mm, slightly planoconvex.
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