Slender, trailing climber, with abundant white latex. Leaves somewhat succulent; lamina narrowly ovate to elliptic or rarely narrowly lanceolate-elliptic or ± oblong, 3–8 cm long, 1–5 cm wide, acute to rounded at base, acute to rounded and somewhat mucronate at apex, thick, ± fleshy. Inflorescence of (1 or) 2 or 3, several-flowered umbel-like cymose clusters along a rachis 2–7 cm long, developing successively from base. Flowers dull cream. Calyx lobes triangular, 1–1.5 mm long. Corolla tube c. 1.5 mm long; lobes lanceolate, 6–8 mm long. Corona lobes 1.5–2 mm long, dorsally saccate in lower half; anther appendages small, almost circular, with crenulate margins. Follicles fusiform, pendant, somewhat fleshy, to 10 cm long, 2.5 cm wide at base. Seeds small, numerous, with silky hairs.
Not common, but scattered in the forest on Norfolk Island and near the shore and on lower hills on Lord Howe Island. Locally widespread along the shore where it can form dense tangles, occasionally on ridges to 300 m alt., also on offshore islands (Hutton 2002: 34).
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