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Fruit brownish-or yellowish-green or green, up to 5·5 x 4–5 cm., subcircular to elliptic in outline, lepidote otherwise glabrous, apical peg absent or very short, not decurrent at the base, wings 1·5–2 cm. broad and rather thin, stipe up to 2·5(3) cm. long, slender.
Lower receptacle 3 mm. long, lepidote otherwise glabrous; upper receptacle 3·5–4 x 2·5–3 mm., infundibuliform, lepidote otherwise glabrous.
Inflorescences of short axillary subcapitate spikes up to 2·5 cm. long; rhachis glabrous; bracts not seen; peduncle up to 1 cm. long.
Cotyledons 2, transversely elliptic, 3–3·5 x 5·5 cm., petioles 2–4 mm. long, arising above soil level.
Liane climbing to 15 m.; stems up to 15 cm. in diam.; bark grey to silvery, rough and flaky.
Petals 1·2–2 x 0·8–1–5 mm., obovate to subcircular, unguiculate, glabrous.
Stamen-filaments 3–5 mm. long; anthers 1–1·5 mm. long.
Style 6 mm. long, slightly expanded at the apex.
Disk with a pilose margin free for 1 mm.
Sepals 0·5 mm. long, acuminate.
Flowers sessile, congested.
Scales c. 50–85µ in diam.
