Scandent or woody climber to 5m, 4-angled brown-hairy lenticellate glabrescent branches. Coriaceous leaves to 320mm x 240mm, glabrescent above & hairy beneath. Cymes to 40mm long with bracts to 7mm long & deciduous bracteoles to 2mm long, hairy calyx to 2.5mm long with 4 minute teeth to 0.2mm, creamy-white to white corolla to 6mm long with tube 4mm long, lobes to 1.5mm x 1.5mm. Drupe ripening shiny black with persistent calyx.