Scrambling shrub, small tree or more usually a liane, 1.2–2.4(–several) m. long or tall; young shoots dark, flexuous, almost or quite glabrous, later grey-brown or purple-brown, lenticellate.. Leaf-blades oblong, oblong-elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, 1–14 cm. long, 0.7–5.8 cm. wide, obtuse, acute or somewhat acuminate at the apex, broadly cuneate or rounded at the base, slightly coriaceous, deep shiny green, glabrous save for a very few small hairs beneath when very young; venation closely reticulate, slightly prominent on both surfaces; petiole 3 mm, long, channelled, with a few ferruginous hairs; minute axillary buds are densely ferruginous pubescent.. Flowers more or less leaf-opposed, solitary; peduncle short; pedicels 0.8–1.8 cm. long,rugulose, glabrous or pubescent with scattered ferruginous stellate hairs or velvety; bracteoles oblong, 2–3 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, very soon deciduous.. Sepals almost hemispherical or very broadly ovate, 2–2.5 mm. long, 4–5 mm. wide, obtuse, free, not covering the petals in bud, sparsely to rather densely covered with stellate hairs.. Petals butter-yellow, outer more or less round, the inner narrower and more oblong, clawed, 0.9–1.5 cm. in diameter, very rounded at apex, not markedly fleshy, velvety ferruginous tomentose outside, sparsely so inside at apex.. Stamens ± 3 mm. long; connective-prolongation thickened, truncate.. Fruiting pedicels 1.2–2 cm. long; monocarps yellow to orange, 8–13(–16), subgloboseto cylindrical, (0.8–)1.8–3.2 cm. long, 6.5–11 mm. wide, 1–8-seeded, mostly distinctly constricted between the seeds or pairs of seeds, mostly apiculate, with scattered stellate hairs or more or less glabrous, finely rugulose; stipes 0.4–1.3 cm. long, often pubescent.. Seeds brown, somewhat shining, if 2 to a constriction then approximately semi-globular, with a strongly convex surface and a more or less flat surface, but often quite ovoid, not flattened, 8 mm. long, 6–7 mm. wide, 4–5.5 mm. thick; hilum elliptic.. Fig. 2/1, p. 11.
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A scrambling shrub or creeper. It can grow 5 m high. It has long shoots. The leaves are long, narrow and glossy. The flowers are produced singly. They can be green, brown or yellow. The fruit are divided into finger like sections. These are 5 cm long. They are green but ripen to yellow then red. The seeds are shiny and brown.
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