Liana or treelet. Branches thinly pubescent when young, lenticellate. Leaves (1-)2-3-jugate, glabrous; petiolules 0.25-0.5 cm. Leaflets ovate or elliptic to oblong, 2½-13 by (1½-)3-7½ cm, thin-coriaceous, minutely verrucose beneath; base rounded (to slightly cordate); apex slightly to distinctly tapering-acuminate, acumen short and broad (blunt or emarginate) to slender; nerves 5-7 pairs, oblique, nearly straight, curving towards the margin, not joined, inconspicuous, veins inconspicuous, mainly transverse, lax. Inflorescences dense, up to c. 10 by 4-5 cm, sparsely appressedly stiff-pilose. Bracts minute. Sepals lanceolate, acute, 3-4 by ¾-1 mm, convex, keeled, rather densely appressedly stiff-pilose outside, inside glabrous. Petals linear-spathulate, acute, 5-8 mm long, outside appressedly shaggy pilose, inside sparsely shortly pubescent, punctate. Stamens for 1 mm connate, epipetalous ones probably not always fertile, mainly the episepalous ones rather densely glandular-pubescent, especially in the upper part. Fruits oblique-ellipsoid, bulging, 2-2½ by 1¼-1½ cm, stalk ½ cm long, beak apical; pericarp thin, outside glabrous, minutely oblique-wrinkled, inside densely pubescent.
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A shrub which climbs slightly. The leaves have 3-5 leaflets. These are 3-13 cm long by 2-7 cm wide. The flowers are white.
Shrub-jungle and forests, at low altitude. Fl. Jan.-Aug., fr. July, Sept., Dec.
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A tropical plant. It grows on the edges of forests in SE Asia.
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