Scrambler or climber with long slender branches. Branches with glabrous recurved spines, pubescent, becoming glabrous. Leaves alternate, spirally arranged; lamina narÂrowly elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, bluntly pointed, often emarginate, cuneate at the base, 3-5-6(-9) cm long, 0-7-1-5 cm broad, puberulous to glabrous, with numerous secondary veins joining the primary vein at almost right angles, with margin undulate or crisped; petiole 2-6 mm long, pubescent. Inflorescence consisting of axillary corymbs with slender peduncles 1-2 cm long; pedicels 5-8 mm long, pubescent. Sepals broadly obovate, outer and inner pair similar, 3-4 mm long, glabrous. Petals obovate to oblong, often slightly falcate, 3-5 mm long. Stamens 20-30 in male flowers, c. 10 in bisexual flowers; filaments often with long hairs. Gynophore 4-5 mm long, with white spreading hairs mainly towards the base. Ovary ovoid with 4-6 ovules; stigma papillose, capitate, almost sessile. Berry spherical 1-1-5 cm in diameter, ora
