Struggling liana, or erect shrub or little tree,  young glabrous branches, leaf blade narrowly elliptic or obovate, acuminate at the apex, attenuate, obtus to rounded at the base of 6.5-15 cm long and 3-8 cm wide, glabrous, and greenish. Receptacle at the old branches or branches without leaves in  a fascicle.

Traditional  use as analgesic and antiinflmmatory .

In Ebony clans of Nigeria state, rural people use the leaves as vegetable.