Shrubs, scandent, or woody vines, the stems ? glabrous, or rarely sparsely pubescent, the hairs appressed. Leaves alternate, ? elliptic, acute or rarely acute-acuminate, entire, the bases obtuse, to 14 cm long and 7.5 cm wide, ? glabrous or rarely with appressed hairs, somewhat coriaceous, falcate, tending to dry brown-black; petioles ca 0.5-2 cm long. Inflorescences cymose, scorpioid, densely-flowered. Flowers sessile; calyx of 5 sepals, slightly connate basally, sub-ulate, ca 1.5-2 mm long, glabrous; corolla white (yellow on drying), ? glabrous to sparsely strigose, the tube ca 4-5(-6) mm long, the lobes keeled, each ca 1.5-2(-2.5) mm long; stamens 5, borne ca 1/3 the way up the corolla tube, almost sessile, the anthers ca 1.5 mm long; ovary ovoid, the style absent, the stigma thick and conical. Fruit globose, white, ca 5-6 mm in diam, the exocarp fleshy, containing (1-)4 nutlets.
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A climbing shrub. It grows 2-7 m long.
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