Weak shrubs up to 5 meters, or woody vines climbing on shrubs. Leaf blades elliptic to ovate, the apex acute to attenuate, the base rounded or acute, 7.0-16.8 cm. long, 3.5-6.6 cm. broad, the petioles 1.0-3.0 cm. long, glabrous. Inflorescence a long uncrowded raceme, about 8.0-2 1.0 cm. long; pedicels 8-16 mm. long; bracts lanceolate, 1.5-2.0 mm. long, deciduous, the bractlets about 0.5 mm. long. Tepals white in flower, red, purple or purplish-pink in fruit, 4.0-9.0 mm. long. Stamens 20-25 inserted at the base of the perianth. Ovary subglobose, the style very short. Fruit a drupe, purple or red, 4.5-5.5 mm. in diameter.
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