Climber. Bark grey. Branchlets terete or weakly angled, sparsely lenticellate or not, densely and minutely puberulent or with longer hairs, sometimes glabrescent. Leaves in whorls of 3 or 4; petiole 0.2-0.4 cm long, pubescent; blade coriaceous or thickly coriaceous, elliptic, ovate or oblong, 0.9-4.5 by 0.35-1.6 cm, 1.5-4 times as long as wide, apex rounded to obtuse, rarely to shortly acuminate, acumen obtuse, base rounded to acute, margin weakly undulate or not, glabrous or sparsely puberulent on midrib and major venation to puberulent all over beneath, puberulent only on midrib or all over above, not punctate beneath, secondary veins 8-11 pairs. Inflorescence axillary, flowers solitary or in a simple unbranched pleiochasium, delicate, glabrous to densely puberulent, 0.7-1.2 cm long; peduncle 0.1-1.4 cm by 0.7-0.8 mm; bracts persistent, deltoid, 0.9 by 0.6 mm; bracteoles only on pedicel of terminal flower; flowers 1-4; pedicels 1.1-2.3 mm long. Sepals free, not fleshy, ovate, 0.9-1 by 0.6 mm, 1.5-1.7 times as long as wide, apex acute, ciliate or not ciliate, glabrous. Corolla white with orange tube or with a pale orange tube and cream lobes; bud head c. 1.6 mm long which is 0.36 of bud length, ovate, apex acute; tube cylindrical, c. 5.2 by 1.3 mm, 5.8 times as long as sepals, 3.5 times as long as lobes, glabrous outside, sparsely pubescent around stamens and more densely in a band beneath them inside; lobes orbicular, c. 1.5 by 1.6 mm, 0.9 times as long as wide, apex rounded, base auriculate, glabrous outside and inside, not ciliate. Stamens inserted at c. 4.1 mm from corolla base which is 0.72 of tube length; filaments c. 0.5 mm long; anther apex 0.6 mm from corolla mouth, anthers 0.8-0.9 by 0.4 mm. Ovaries c. 0.5 mm high, pubescent in tuft between carpels or very sparsely pubescent around base only; style 2.4-3.6 mm long; style head 0.4-0.5 mm long. Fruit with 1 article, articles with thin flesh, 7-8.2 by 5.5-6.5 mm, ellipsoid, subglobose or cylindrical, symmetrical, apex rounded. Seeds elliptic, 6.2-7.7 by 4.7-6.2 by 4.1-4.8 mm.
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