Woody twining liana or erect glabrous shrub with purplish branches. Coriaceous glabrous leaves 200mm long. Axillary & terminal panicled corymbs with minute bracts of fragrant 20mm lilac or white flowers, calyx lobes to 6mm long, one calyx lobe enlarged & white, white corolla tube 6mm long, lobes to 3mm long, fruit a capsule