Embelia schimperi Vatke

Climbing shrub or liane with long trailing branches, the climbing aided by short hardened lateral branchlets. Leaves spirally arranged, crowded at the ends of branches, very variable in shape, up to c. 6 cm long, thinly fleshy, hairless, rounded or notched at the apex; margin entire. Flowers in spikes on the old lateral shoots, greenish to yellowish, unisexual on the same plant, sometimes bisexual. Fruit somewhat depressed-spherical, c. 5 mm in diameter, scarlet when ripe.

Widespread in tropical Africa.