Liana; branchlets terete or faintly quadrangular. Petiole 5-12 mm long; blades chartaceous, shiny above, when dried brown to dark green above and yellowish or pale greenish below, elliptic-oblong, 6-15 x 3-7 cm, margins subentire, sometimes crenate-serrate, apex cuspidate with acumen to 1.5 cm long, base acute or obtuse; primary vein prominulous to impressed above, prominent below, secondary veins 5-9 per side, flattened or impressed above, prominulous below, tertiary veins reticulate, slightly prominulous on both surfaces, or inconspicuous. Inflorescence dichotomously branched, compact, hemispherical, 2-4 cm long; peduncle 0.4-1.2 cm long; bracts ca. 1 mm long. Flowers subsessile, fragrant, ca. 2 mm diam.; sepals semiorbicular or deltoid, ca. 0.4 x 0.6 mm, entire or slightly erosulous; petals slightly fleshy, yellow, orbicular or oblong, 0.8-1.2 x 0.6-0.8 mm, entire or erosulous, thickened at base and along midvein; disk 0.2-0.4 mm high, consisting of 3 staminiferous pockets; filaments ca. 0.3 mm long, anthers ca. 0.1 x 1.8 mm; ovary ca. 0.6 mm diam., ovules 2 per locule, stigmas narrowly deltoid, obtuse, entire. Fruit globose, ca. 2 cm diam., pericarp smooth, orange-yellow.
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