Perennial climber, green, glabrous except for simple hairs in tufts in leaf axils and axils of larger veins on lower leaf-surface; prickles absent. Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, usually simple, sometimes with 2 small leaves in axil; lamina 3–5 cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm wide, concolorous; petiole 1–2 cm long, often twining; juvenile leaves up to 7 cm long and 6 cm wide, deeply lobed, the lobes lanceolate. Inflorescence branched, c. 20–flowered; peduncle to 35 mm long up to first fork; pedicels 10–15 mm long; fruiting pedicel to 4 mm diam. below calyx. Calyx 2–3 mm long; lobes acuminate, 1–1.5 mm long. Corolla shallowly incised, 20 mm diam., white or pale blue. Anthers 2–4 mm long. Berry globular or slightly ovoid, 7–9 mm diam., dark blue to shiny black. Seeds 2–3 mm long, grey with pale margin.
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