Scandent shrub, c. 6 m high. Branches lenticellate, sparingly pubescent when young. Leaves trifoliolate, glabrous; petiolules 3-5 mm long. Leaflets ovate to elliptic, 9-13 by 4.5-7 cm, stiff-chartaceous; base rounded, slightly peltate; apex rather abruptly acuminate, acumen 8-12 mm long, blunt; midrib grooved above, nerves 3-4 pairs, strongly ascending, curved, looped and more or less distinctly joined; veins and veinlets together minutely tessellate-reticulate. Inflorescences up to 12 cm long, rather lax, densely minutely ferrugi-nous-tomentose. Sepals oblong, blunt, 2 mm long, pubescent. Petals lanceolate, blunt, 3-3.5 mm long, glabrous, densely punctate. Stamens slightly connate, epipetalous ones staminodial, all filaments glabrous. Fruits unknown.
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