Shrub or woody climber to 3.5 m high; stems glabrous, purplish brown or greyish, densely covered with raised white lenticels. Leaves with petiole 5–7 mm long; blade papery to leathery, glossy dark green above, dull and paler below, broadly elliptic, 3–8.5 x 2–2.5 cm, acute to acuminate at the apex, rounded to cuneate at the base, venation more conspicuous below, margin subentire or crenate to shallowly or strongly serrate. Inflorescences axillary, shortly pedunculate, with clusters of up to 25 flowers; bracts ovate-triangular, 0.5–1 mm long; pedicels 5–9(–12) mm long, articulated at the base. Buds usually conical, 2–3 mm long. Flowers yellow or greenish yellow, 6–8 mm in diam. Sepals subequal, ovate, 0.5–1 mm long. Petals ovate or oblong, 3–4 mm long. Disk subcylindrical to conical, sometimes vertically fluted, 2–2.5 mm in diam. Stamens with filaments c. 2 mm long, becoming coiled after anthesis. Ovary ovoid, sometimes trigonous, with 2–4 ovules in each cell; style slender with entire stigma. Fruit yellowish orange to pink or red, globose, 1.8–3.5(–5) cm in diam., finely rugose, borne on a much thickened lenticellate peduncle. Seeds 2–3.
