Shrub, climbing or scrambling; branches ± flattened and grey when young, eventually becoming terete and dark purplish-red. Leaves on young and lateral shoots with lamina bluish-green and glossy on both surfaces, 6–14(18) × 2·5–6·5(8·5) cm., elliptic to oblong or ovate-oblong, rounded to retuse or rarely obtuse at the apex, with margin entire or remotely glandular-denticulate, cuneate to rounded at the base, coriaceous, with nerves and principal reticulate venation equally prominent on both sides, sometimes with very dense secondary reticulate venation prominent above; petiole 3–9 mm. long; stipules with fringed margin. Cymes simple, with peduncle (3)6–24 mm. long bearing a condensed dichasium with sessile or pedunculate lateral 1–3-flowered clusters, or rarely inflorescences compound with condensed cymes on specialised shoots forming “panicles”; pedicels absent; flowers (1)3–7 in each cyme, c. 3–4 mm. in diam. Sepals 2 mm. long, lanceolate, sometimes carinate, coriaceous, with membranous fimbriate margin. Petals greenish-yellow or yellow, 3 mm. long, narrowly oblong to oblanceolate, spreading above the erect sepals. Stamens with anthers c. 0·7 mm. long, oblong-lanceolate. Ovary narrowly conic. Berry orange-red, 18–25(28) mm. long, obovoid to subglobose, smooth, fleshy, ± glaucous. Seeds c. 15 mm. long, dark brown, curved, flattened-ellipsoid.
