Climber. Branchlets weakly or strongly angled, sparsely lenticellate or not, sparsely or densely puberulent. Leaves in whorls of 4; petiole 0.2-0.5 cm long, glabrous or pubescent; blade subcoriaceous or papery, narrowly elliptic or elliptic, 3.8-14 by 1-5.1 cm, 2.1-3.9 times as long as wide, apex obtuse or acuminate, base cuneate or decurrent onto petiole, margin flat or weakly to strongly undulate, glabrous or sparsely puberulent only on midrib beneath, glabrous or puberulent only on midrib above, not punctate beneath, secondary veins 42-55 pairs, 65-80° from midrib. Inflorescence axillary, a compound pleiochasium with clear internodes, sometimes congregated and forming lax panicles, or once or twice branched and congested at top of peduncle, delicate, densely puberulent, 1.7-9.5 cm long; peduncle 0.8-2.3 cm by 1.1-1.8 mm; bracts caducous or persistent, ovate or deltoid, 1.8-2.5 by 1.4-2 mm; flowers 25-27; pedicels 0-1 mm long. Sepals not fleshy, very slightly fused around the base and slightly reflexed, ovate, 1.5-1.9 by 1-1.6 mm, 1.2-1.5 times as long as wide, apex obtuse or acute, ciliate, sparsely or densely puberulent. Corolla white or yellow; bud head c. 1 mm long which is 0.38 of bud length, ovate, apex rounded or obtuse; tube cylindrical or slightly inflated, 1.4-2.1 by 0.9-1 mm, 0.7-1.2 times as long as sepals, 1.4-1.9 times as long as lobes, glabrous or sparsely puberulent around top of tube outside, glabrous inside; lobes ovate or orbicular, 1-1.2 by 0.9-1.2 mm, 0.9-1.3 times as long as wide, apex rounded or obtuse, base auriculate, glabrous or sparsely puberulent outside, glabrous inside, not ciliate. Stamens inserted at 1.1-1.3 mm from corolla base which is 0.5-0.59 of tube length; filaments 0.3 mm long; anther apex 0.2-0.5 mm from corolla mouth, anthers 0.7 by 0.35-0.4 mm. Ovaries 0.5-0.8 mm high, densely pubescent all over; style 0.4-0.7 mm long; style head 0.3 mm long. Fruit orange (maturing black?), stalks 8-18 mm long, with 1 article, glabrous, articles with thin flesh, 26-60 by 15-29.5 mm, ellipsoid, symmetrical or asymmetrical, apex rounded to acuminate, often hooked. Seeds c. 31 by 19.2 by 17.1 mm.
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