Liana, sometimes erect shrub, rarely a small tree up to 6 m. Branchlets usually densely covered with lenticels, rarely rather smooth. Stipules deltoid, c. 1 mm long, erose. Leaves sometimes associated with some spirally arranged ones, chartaceous, shining above, elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, broad-elliptic, or obovate, 8-18.5 by 4-6 cm (on sterile branches up to 24 by 12 cm); base cuneate, obtuse; margin crenulate or sub-entire; nerves 6-10 pairs; petiole 3-10 mm. Bracts deltoid, c. 0.5 mm long, short-fimbriate. Pedicels 9-14½ mm. Flowers pale dull green, or greenish yellow, many on a short, axillary, bracteate tubercle. Calyx divided almost to the base, lobes deltoid, or suborbicular, c. 1 mm long, obtuse, slightly erose or short-fimbriate. Petals broad-elliptic, or obovate, 2-3 by 1.5-2 mm, rather fleshy, obtuse, entire, with obscure, longitudinal veins. Disk suborbicular, flat, slightly concave in the central part, 1.25-1.5 mm ø, c. ⅓ mm high, the tissue at the base slightly extended outward into a narrow membranous rim. Pistil c. 0.5 mm emerging from the disk, pyramidal. Ovary 3-celled. Stamens 3, 0.5-0.25 mm; anthers brown coloured at the base. Ovules 2, inserted near the inner angle at the base. Fruit subglobose, c. 2.5 cm ø, red. Seeds slightly planoconvex, 1.5-1.75 by 1-1.5 cm.
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A woody climber. It grows 6 m long. The branches usually are covered with lenticels. The flowers are pale green to yellow. The fruit is a flattened berry. It is 2 cm across.
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