Climber or creeper up to 2 m, growing from a tuber. Leaves ovate-oblong to lanceolate-linear, top longly acute or acuminate, base rounded, (1½-)2-13 by ¼-4½ cm. Marginal glands absent. Inflorescences either in short-shoots or in the axils of normal leaves, up to 4 cm peduncled. ♂ Flowers including the 3-7 mm long stipe 8-15 by 1-2 mm. Hypanthium 1½-3½ mm. Calyx tube 0-2 mm. Sepals lanceolate to linear, 4-8 mm. Petals 4-5 mm. Filaments 2½-3½ mm, connate for 1½-2½ mm. Anthers 2-3(-3½) mm, up to 0.2 mm apiculate. Corona-hairs 0.1-0.3 mm. ♀ Flowers including the 1-3(-5) mm long stipe 8-12 by 1-2 mm. Hypanthium 1-1½ mm. Calyx tube 0. Sepals 4-7 mm. Fruit excluding the 2-5 mm long gynophore 1¾-4 by 1-2 cm. Seeds subglobu-lar to ± flattened, smooth or shallowly grooved or pitted, 4-7 mm ø
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