Large scandent shrub with glabrescent branchlets, leaves coriaceous and glabrescent except pubescent beneath and on midrib above. Yellowish hairy axillary racemes with basal bracteoles, 30mm long red flowers tipped white, calyx tube to 3mm with 5 lobes, corolls to 30mm x 5mm with 4 lobes, glabrous fruit to 8mm diameter