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A shrub or woody climber. it can be 10 m tall. The branches are slender and without hairs. The bark is red-brown. The leaves can be alternate or opposite. They are narrow and oval. The leaves are 4.5 cm long. The tip is pointed and the base narrows to the stalk. The flowers are white or pale yellow. They are in flower heads at the ends of the plant. The fruit are yellow to orange. They are oval and 1-2 cm long.
Leaves alternate or opposite; petiole 1.5–3 mm long; lamina deep green on the upper surface, light green or greyish-green beneath, (10)15–45(63) × (6)10–25(33) mm, narrowly to broadly elliptic or ovate, acuminate to obtuse or truncate at the apex, narrowly to broadly cuneate at the base, sometimes slightly undulate, glabrous, membranous to subcoriaceous.
Flowers white, pale yellow, cream or yellowish-cream, in terminal or axillary few-to 10-flowered pedunculate cymes; pedicels 2–12 mm long; bracts 1–2 mm long, ciliate, falling early.
Branches slender, glabrous; bark dark brown, reddish-brown or black, with horizontal whitish lenticels; sometimes with woody tendrils.
Ovary with a few hairs at the apex or glabrous, surrounded by a whorl of hairs at the base; disk c. 0.5 mm long; style 8–14 mm long.
Stamens of the upper whorl slightly exceeding the petals; anthers 1 mm long, subsessile.
Petals forming an entire or lobed ring with stiff hairs, c. 0.5 mm long, membranous.
Shrub or woody climber 0.5–6(10) m high, rarely a small subshrub c. 25 cm tall.
Calyx tube 12–18 mm long, glabrous; lobes 2–3.5 × 1–2 mm, ovate, glabrous.
Fruit yellow to reddish-orange, 12–23 × 8–12 mm, glabrous.
