Plant to at least 1 m tall; stems glabrous to densely hairy. Leaf-blades lanceolate to ovate, 4–17 x 2.5–8 cm, acuminate, broadly cuneate to cordate at the base, glabrous to densely hairy; petiole 1.5–6 cm long. Racemes 3–5 cm long in flower, elongating in fruit; pedicels 1.5–3 mm long in flower. Sepals green, white or pinkish, c. 2 mm long. Berry 3–4 mm in diam., red when ripe. Seed 2–2.4 mm in diam.
Range
S2 native in tropical and subtropical America, locally naturalized in the Old World tropics.
