Woody climbers, glabrous except for inflorescence rachises. Branchlets dark reddish purple when young, unarmed or spinose. Leaves 3-7-foliolate; petiolules ca. 1 mm; leaflet blades opposite, elliptic to obovate, 5-10 × 3-5 cm, thinly papery, oil glands inconspicuous, reticulate veinlets ridged when dry, base broadly cuneate, margin entire, apex acuminate. Infructescences axillary. Pedicel 4-7 mm in fruit. Fruit follicles crimson, globose, ca. 5.5 mm in diam., apex beaked; exocarp, mesocarp, and endocarp thin. Seeds 4-4.5 mm in diam. Fr. Oct.
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