Climbing shrub. Branchlets at first fulvous-tomentellous, later glabrescent. Leaves papyraceous, opposite, elliptic or oblong-ellptic, sparsely pubescent above, densely pubescent or almost tomentose beneath and densely scaly but individual scales not conspicuous, 6-11 by 4-5 cm, bluntly acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base; nerves 5-8 pairs; petiole 3-5 mm, tomentellous. Inflorescence fulvo-tomentellous, a terminal or axillary panicle of spikes. Bracts linear, pubescent, 2 mm long, soon deciduous. Flowers sessile, 4-merous. Lower receptacle (ovary) densely ferrugineous-scaly, 2 mm long, somewhat constricted above the ovary. Upper receptacle densely ferrugineous-scaly, shortly and broadly infundi-buliform at the base, c. 1 mm long, cupuliform at the apex and terminating in 4 broadly triangular calyx-lobes. Petals 4, linear-lanceolate, glabrous, 1-1½ mm long. Stamens 8, exserted. Disk small, densely pilose. Fruit broadly elliptic to obovate in outline, scaly but scales not very conspicuous, retuse at the apex and with a short, 1½ mm long stipe at the base; wings 4 thin, flexible c. 1 cm broad.
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