Liane up to 5–20 m. long; branches slender, glabrous.. Leaf-blades elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 5–9 cm. long, 2–4 cm. wide, with a very pronounced acumen 1–1.6 cm. long, 2–3(–4) mm. wide which is rounded or often ± spathulate, cuneate or rounded at the base, glabrous save for a few ± pilose domatia, the nerves lax and arcuate far from the margins.. Corymbs glabrous, few–20-flowered; primary inflorescence-branches 1–3 cm. long, slender, pedicels (0.4–)0.8–2.2(–3) cm. long; bracts triangular, ± 1 mm. long, ciliate.. Calyx-tube turbinate, 3 mm. long, glabrous; lobes imbricate, triangular to square, ± 1 mm. long and wide, rounded, ciliolate.. Corolla white, glabrous outside; tube 0.9–1.3 cm. long; lobes oblong, 7–8(–10) mm. long, 2–3 mm. wide.. Fruit grey-green becoming whitish, 6–8 mm. in diameter, with calyx-limb persistent 1 mm. long, 2-locular.. Seeds light brown, 8–12 per fruit, smooth, ± 4 mm. long.
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