Lianas, slender, the stems sparsely pubescent. Leaves ? elliptic, acute-acu-minate, obtuse to rounded basally, to 12 cm long and 6 cm wide, chartaceous, pubescent, the hairs on the upper surface stiff and with multicellular bases, softly pubescent at least on the midrib beneath; petioles to 3 cm long, glandular in the axils. Inflorescences racemose, few-to several-flowered, axillary, the peduncles ca. 9-12 cm long. Flowers with the pedicels ca. 5-15 mm long; calyx-lobes ovate-deltoid, ca. 1.5 mm long; corolla sparsely and softly pubescent externally, the tube ca. 4 mm long, pubescent within and slightly expanded at the level of stamen attachment, the lobes obliquely obovate, ca. 6-7 mm long; stamens attached near the middle of the corolla tube, the anthers ca. 0.8 mm long. "Follicles narrowly terete, 1-seeded by abortion, prolonged into a tapering sterile beak with ferru-ginous barbate hairs."
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