Twining rambler or climber, glabrous except for the hair-tuft domatia and puberulous perianth. Leaves alternate, simple: lamina ovate to broadly ovate, 3–7.5 (–9) cm long, 1.8–5 cm wide, rounded or subcordate base, entire margin or frequently with 1 or 2 angles or lobes, gradually acute to acuminate apex, chartaceous (thin and soft), green above, paler and often whitish or greyish beneath, 3-veined in basal c. half, hairy domatia on undersurface in axils of midvein and the basal pair of lateral veins; petiole 1–3 cm long. Peduncles 1.5–2 cm long. Flowers usually solitary and pendant in axils of leaves, bisexual; perianth of spirally arranged sepaloid tepals grading into inner petaloid tepals to form an urceolate structure with a narrowing mouth enclosing the sexual organs; bracts and perianth segments (13–) 15–18, the outer segments deep pink or carmine red gradually passing into inner white ones; sepaloid tepals (± 7) and bracts broadly ovate to ovate, c. 1–4 mm long, the outer slightly smaller than the inner, pink, caducous; petaloid tepals 5, c. broadly oblong-elliptic, thinner than sepaloid tepals, c. 7–8 mm long, pale pink to white, caducous; disc annular, indented, persistent; stamens (8–) 11 (–13), filaments
Grows usually in cool temperate rainforest, also in warm temperate rainforest, wet sclerophyll/tall open forest and eucalypt woodland.
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