Scandent shrub or tree with glabrous branchlets, coriaceous glabrous leaves to 80mm x 30mm. Axillary blackish-red glabrous flowers tipped greenish-yellow with minute bracts and bracteoles, 5-lobed calyx tube to 6mm x 3mm, 5-lobed corolla to 40mm x 7mm, fleshy purple-black fruit to 15mm x 12mm