Climber, or shrub with climbing branches, these with long internodes and rudimentary leaves. Leafy twigs 1.5-2.5 mm thick, brownish to whitish puberulous, partly with uncinate hairs, mostly drying dark brown with conspicuous lenticels. Leaves distichous; lamina narrowly elliptic to narrowly ovate, 4-16(-20) by 1.5-6.5(-8), usually ± asymmetric, subcoriaceous, apex acuminate, base rounded to subcordate (or to subcuneate), margin entire or denticulate to dentate towards the apex, often ± revolute, at least towards the base; upper surface minutely whitish puberulous on (the lower part of) the midrib; lower surface sparsely whitish puberulous on the (main) veins; midrib prominent above, lateral veins 7-12 pairs, tertiary venation (sub)scalariform; petiole 0.3-1(-1.5) cm long, (sparsely) puberulous; stipules 0.1-0.5 cm long, sparsely whitish appressedly puberulous, caducous or subpersistent. Staminate inflorescences axillary, solitary, in pairs or up to 6 together on short-shoots, spicate; peduncle 0.5-1.5 cm long, puberulous to tomentellous; spike 0.5-3.5(-5) cm long, often interrupted; perianth c. 1.5 mm long, minutely puberulous; stamens c. 2.5 mm long, anthers c. 0.8 mm long; bracts basally attached, ovate to narrowly ovate, 0.5-1 mm long, minutely puberulous. Pistillate inflorescences axillary, solitary, in pairs or up to 6 together on short-shoots, capitate to short-spicate (or uniflorous); peduncle 0.4-2 cm long, puberulous to tomentellous; head 0.3-0.5 cm diam., spike up to 1.5 cm long; flowers 1-8; perianth 1-1.5 mm long, glabrous except for the densely white puberulous apex, faintly 4-dentate to subentire; ovary c. 1 mm long, style 1-2 mm long, stigmas 5-15 mm long; bracts basally attached, ovate to subulate, 0.5-1 mm long, densely white puberulous to subtomentellous. Fruiting perianth ellipsoid, when dry 0.6-0.8 cm long, dark pink to red at maturity.
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A vine or climbing shrub. The young branches are brown. There are short grey hairs when young. The leaves are simple and oval. They are 3-13 cm long by 2-4.5 cm wide. They are slightly sandpapery on the under surface. There are 7-12 pairs of secondary veins on each side of the midrib. The fruit are berries 8 mm long by 5 mm across. The occur in clusters in the axils of leaves. The receptacle can be yellow, pink, red or orange. There is one seed inside. This is 8 mm long. The flesh is edible.
It grows in tropical and subtropical locations. It grows in rainforest in Queensland and New South Wales in Australia, as well as in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. It grows from sea level to 1,100 m above sea level. In China it grows in scrub on hills in S China.
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