Stems twining; young parts hirsute, glabrescent, pale fulvous. Leaves broadly to narrowly ovate, (5-)9-14 by (2½-)4-9 cm, base broadly rounded to subcordate, apex acute or slightly acuminate; sparsely hirsute on both sides; midrib and 8-11 nerves on either side slightly prominent beneath; petiole much shorter than blade, 2-5 cm, hirsute. Fruiting peduncles axillary, 4-10 cm long, hirsute, cymosely branched at the apex, bearing 3-8 fruits. Bracts caducous. Fruiting pedicels 5-10 mm long, hirsute, thickened above. Two outer sepals elliptic, obtuse, 9 mm long, hirsute outside; sepal 3 orbicular with rounded apex, 8 mm long, hirsute, with one glabrous margin; two inner sepals orbicular, rounded to slightly emarginate, 8 mm long, hirsute, with two glabrous margins. Fruit ellpsoid or ovoid, ca 18 mm long; seed 1, ellpsoid, ca 15 mm long.
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