Scrambler or scandent shrub up to 10m; sap milky. Leaves opposite, lanceolate to ovate, 6-25mm wide, shiny dark green. Very small flowers are finely hairy above, corona lobes erect and incurved over the anthers; anthers 4-locular, pollen gathered into 4 pollinia.

Fruit is a seed pod which is dehiscent with a pair of follicles; seed with a tuft of hair on one end.

dehiscent = seed pod splits open along a 'built-in' line of weakness in order to release its seeds  

follicle = a dry, unilocular fruit