Woody climber, with terete brown tomentose branches. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, to c. 7-11 by 1.7-3 cm, chartaceous, base broadly cuneate to rounded, apex produced into long delicate acumen (c. 3 cm long), margin entire, nerves numerous, im-pressed above, reticulations of smaller veins prominent, becoming ± glabrous above, densely rufoussericeous below; petiole c. 6-10 mm long, tomentose. Inflorescence axillary and terminal, shorter than the leaves, pleiochasia on long, brown-tomentose peduncles. Flowers evidently uni-and bi-sexual, c. 5 mm long, subsessile; tepals c. 8-10, ovate to obovate, obtuse, glabrous. Stamens c. 10-12, 3.5-4 mm long, filaments slender, the anthers somewhat longer than the filaments, white or pinkish at maturity, connective produced. Carpel solitary, c. 2-2.5 mm long, sparsely rigose, carpel-lode in male flowers rudimentary or absent. Fruit a succulent berry c. 7 by 5 mm, deep crimson.
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