Liana. Branchlets at first minutely tomentellous, later glabrescent, smooth. Leaves with petioles strongly thickened and tomentellous at base and apex, otherwise subglabrous, 5—8(—17) cm; lamina broadly elliptic or subovate, base cuneate (or rounded), apex abruptly and obtusely or long and very acutely acuminate, 24-41 by 9-18 cm, lateral nerves 3-4 pairs with the inner subbasal pair ascending be-yond the middle of the lamina, nerves and reticulation prominent on both surfaces, strongly bullate, glabrous, thinly coriaceous. Inflorescences apparently axillary, otherwise unknown. Male flowers ?fascicled; sepals:outer 3(+ 3) to 1.5 mm, tomentellous, inner calyx yellow, 10 mm, externally tomentellous; petals 6, thick and fleshy, broadly ovate, lateral lobes inflexed, 1 mm; synandrium 4-5 mm bearing c. 20 anthers. Female flowers unknown. Infructescence a solitary peduncle in the axil of a leaf-scar. Drupe yellow, oblong-ellipsoidal, c. 4 by 2.7 cm, peduncle 4 mm ø, 1.5 cm long (incl. carpophore); endocarp 2.7-3 cm long, crustaceous with wall scarcely 1 mm thick.
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