Plants glabrous throughout. Young branches lacking wings; leaf-bearing branches elongated. Petiole 0.4-2.7 cm; leaf blade elliptic to ovate, (5-)7-11.5(-20) × 1-4(-8.5) cm, papery to leathery, not glaucous, secondary veins (4 or)5 or 6(-9) on each side of midvein, base cuneate, broadly cuneate, or truncate, margin entire, subentire, denticulate-serrulate, or rarely serrate, apex shortly acuminate. Flowers axillary to fugacious bracts at base of young shoots or axillary to leaves, solitary or in clusters; peduncle 2-17 mm (staminate), 3-14 mm (pistillate). Tepals 7-17, cream, yellow, orange, pink, or purplish, largest 3-12.5 × 2.5-10 mm. Staminate flowers: stamens (4-)8-18, connate into an androecial mass; anthers on conspicuous connectives; pollen 6-colpate. Pistillate flowers: carpels 18-52; pseudostyle flat and subulate. Fruit peduncle 0.5-3 cm; torus 2-6.5 cm; apocarps red to purple, 4.5-9 × 4-8.5 mm. Seed testa ± smooth. Fl. Mar-Sep, fr. Aug-Dec.
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A woody vine. Young branches do not have wings and leafy branches are elongated. The leaves are 7012 cm long by 1-5 cm wide. The base is wedge shaped. The flowers are near bracts at the base of young shoots. The fruit are red to purple and 5-9 mm long by 4-9 mm wide.
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