Liana; branchlets terete, slightly swollen at nodes. Petiole 7-16 mm long; blades chartaceous to coriaceous, often discolorous, usually olivaceous or glaucous, sometimes yellowish when dried, narrowly to broadly elliptic(-oblong), 7-20 x 3-11 cm, margins entire to crenulate, apex cuspidate, acute or acuminate with acumen to 1.5 cm long, base obtuse or acute, decurrent into the petiole; primary vein prominent on both surfaces, secondary veins 5-11 per side, flattened to prominulous above, prominulous to prominent below, tertiary veins inconspicuous. Inflorescence dichotomously branched, with long, slender branchlets, to 5.5 cm long; peduncle to 0.8 cm long; bracts and bracteoles to 0.2 mm long; pedicels to 0.5 mm long. Flowers 2-2.5 mm diam.; sepals ovate-deltoid, to 0.7 x 1.1 mm; petals fleshy or slightly so, greenish white to yellow or orange, ovate-elliptic or suborbicular, 0.8-1.5 mm, glabrous or puberulous without; margins strongly erosulous; disk 0.3-0.5 mm high, consisting of 3 staminiferous pockets; filaments 0.2-0.4 mm long, anthers ca. 0.1 x 0.2 mm; ovary 0.5-1 mm diam., ovules 2 per locule, superposed, stigma tips deeply bilobed, sometimes slightly so. Fruit on thickened pedicel, ellipsoid, to 3 x 2 cm, green, maturing yellow or orange, (brown spotted), often with 6-10 lines or folds originating from the base; seeds ellipsoid, to 2 cm long, orange-red.
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