Shrub or climber; twigs slender, sparsely brown-puberulous when young; internodes 2-4 cm. Thorns recurved, 1-3 mm long. Leaves elliptic, ovate to obovate, c. 5-8 by 2½-4 cm; base rounded to blunt, top blunt, minutely retuse, sometimes subacuminate; midrib above subprominent, sulcate at the base, brown-puberulous when young on both surfaces, or glabrous; nerves 5-6 pairs, thin; petiole 3-4 mm, sulcate above, brown-puberulous when young. Umbel terminal, sessile, 3-5-flowered. Bracts minute, caducous. Pedicels filiform, 2-5 cm, glabrous. Buds globular, 3-4 mm diam. Sepals c. 4 mm long, outer pair glabrous; inner pair elliptic, ciliate. Petals white, oblong, c. 4-5 mm, hairy inside. Stamens 12-15, c. 1.25 cm, anthers small, white. Gynophore c. 1.5 cm, glabrous; ovary subglobular, acute, c. 1 mm long. Fruit unknown.
Home