Large woody vines up to 10 m. Stems and old branches gray or dark gray, irregularly and longitudinally rugose; branchlets terete, neatly and longitudinally striate, glabrous. Petioles shorter than leaf blade; leaf blade broadly ovate to broadly ovate-orbicular, 8-13 × 6-9.5 cm, leathery to thickly leathery, fuliginous adaxially and brown abaxially when dry, glabrous on both surfaces, base subtruncate or slightly rounded, rarely subcordate, apex often cuspidate, palmately 5-veined, fine reticulation more conspicuous abaxially. Male inflorescences usually arising from leaf scar on old stems, paniculate, 5-8 cm with short branches 1-2 cm or slightly longer, subglabrous. Male flowers: sepals 9 in 3 whorls, outer whorls subovate, 0.6-0.8 mm, margin erose, middle whorl oblong-elliptic, 2.2-2.3 mm, inner whorl nautiform, ca. 2.2 mm; synandrium with 9 anthers. Female flowers not seen. Infructescences borne on old stems, stout, carpophores stout, 0.7-1.5 × 0.5-0.7 cm. Drupes yellow when mature, later black, subglobose, slightly flat, 2.5-3 cm, ferruginous pilose; exocarp smooth; endocarp subbony, oblate. Fl. summer.
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A large woody vine. It is up to 10 m long. The stems and old branches are grey. They have lines along them. The leaves have stalks which are shorter than the leaf blade. The leaf blade is leathery and oval. It is 8-13 cm long by 6-9.5 cm wide. It is cup shaped near the tip. Male flowers are usually on old stems. The male flower parts are in 3 rings.
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