Liana or scandent shrub. Branches densely stellate-plumose, as are the leaves and inflorescences, more or less glabrescent. Leaves 1-4-jugate, petiolules 0.25-0.5 cm. Leaflets obovate to lanceolate, 4-17 by 1½-5 cm, thin-coriaceous, glabrous above, densely ferruginous-pubescent beneath, rather early glabrescent; base acute to slightly rounded, subpeltate; apex tapering acute-acuminate; midrib strongly prominent beneath, nerves 4-8 pairs, ascending, curved, usually distinctly looped and joined near the margin, inconspicuous above, veins laxly reticulate. Inflorescences 10-30 cm long, few-flowered. Bracts very conspicuous, subulate, circinnate, c. 0.5 cm long, often without a flower, giving the inflorescence a very characteristic crispy appearance. Sepals lanceolate, acute, complicate, 3.5-5 by 1 mm, outside densely pubescent, inside glabrous. Petals linear, blunt, 5.5-8 mm long, glabrous except the glandular-ciliate margins, punctate. Stamens 0.5 mm connate, all fertile, epipetalous ones glabrous, episepalous ones with many glandular hairs in the upper half of the filaments. Fruits ellipsoid, 3-4.25 by 1¾-2¼ cm, not stipitate; beak minute, either inserted at ¾ of the height or nearly at the apex; pericarp rather thin, outside densely orange-brown pubescent, inside glabrous.
In primary, dipterocarp and karengas forests, at low altitude up to 500 m. Fl. May, Aug., fr. Sept-Jan. (April).
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