Slender climber. Stems 1-6 mm ø, woody, puber-ulous or sparsely hispid when young, later glabrescent. Leaves: petioles puberulous, 3-7 cm, inserted 11-22 mm above the basal margin; lamina broadly ovate to suborbicular, apex abruptly acuminate to subcaudate, acumen finely mucronate, base truncate to cordate, 7.5-12.5 by 6.5-11 cm; palmately 11-13-nerved; glabrous or subglabrous above, sub-tomentose below; submembranous. Male inflorescences axillary or cauliflorous (sometimes having the appearance of a terminal or cauliflorous flowering stem from which the leaves have fallen), 15-120 cm, laxly and repeatedly branched, puberulous, flowers in cymose clusters, bracts linear, tomentose, up to 5 mm. Male flowers white, borne on pedicels 1-1.5 mm; sepals 4, free, elliptic, 1.5-2 by 0.5 mm, pubescent outside; corolla campanulate, margin entire, 1 mm long, glabrous, synandrium 1 mm long. Female inflorescences ?cauliflorous, c. 30 cm, with lower lateral branches up to 3(-5) cm, puberulous; flowers in rather dense clusters arranged along lateral branches, bracts as in male Inflorescences. Female flowers borne on pedicels 1-1.25 mm; sepals 2, variable in shape, ± rotund, 0.75 mm long, pilose outside; petals ?none; carpel obliquely ellip-soidal, 1 mm long, densely pilose; style 0.25 mm, gla-brous, lacinately 4-or 5-lobed, lobes 0.75 mm. Drupes on pedicels 3-5 mm, rotund in outline, 5 mm ø, sparsely puberulous; endocarp bearing 4 longitudi-nal rows of c. 14 papilliform tubercles, both faces smooth with slight depression at centre and bordered by prominent ridge.
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