Climber. Branchlets weakly angled, densely lenticellate, glabrous. Leaves in whorls of 3, coriaceous; petiole 1-1.3 cm long, glabrous; blade broadly elliptic, 6-10 by 3.1-5.3 cm, 1.6-2.3 times as long as wide, apex long sharp acuminate, base obtuse to acute, margin weakly undulate, dark green, pale green beneath, glabrous, secondary veins 39-55 pairs, 70° from midrib, weakly prominent above and beneath. Inflorescence axillary, once or twice branched and congested at top of peduncle, delicate, densely puberulent; bracts persistent, deltoid; bracteoles multiple, on all flowers. Sepals apex acute, ciliate, glabrous. Corolla only known from immature flowers, bud head deltoid, apex acute, tube glabrous outside, very sparsely pubescent beneath filaments inside; lobes ovate, base auriculate, apex acute, not ciliate, glabrous outside and inside. Ovaries pubescent in tuft between carpels. Fruit with 1-3 articles in each string, c. 2.5 mm between articles, stalks 2-2.1 mm long; articles with thin flesh, 6.7-7.6 by 4.6-5.3 mm, ellipsoid or subglobose, apex rounded or obtuse. Seeds 6.2-7.5 by 4.6-5 by 3.8-4.3 mm.
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