Slender woody climber. Leaves with petioles 3-6 cm long inserted c. 1 mm above basal margin; lamina deltoid-ovate to triangular-ovate, apex long and fine-ly acuminate, base very obtuse, truncate or cordate, palmately 5-7-nerved, 7-12.5 by 4.5-10 cm, both surfaces sparsely puberulous or glabrous with a fine and prominent reticulation, stiffly papyraceous. Male inflorescences axillary, unbranched, 4-7 cm long with the flowers in sessile clusters 0.5-1 cm apart. Male flowers green, sessile; sepals 4, basally connate or almost free, broadly obovate 1.5-2 mm long; synandrium subdiscoid, slightly lobed at the margin, 0.5-1 mm long, fleshy, glabrous. Female inflorescences similar to male, up to 13 cm long. Female flowers: sepals 2 or 3, free, obovate or subre-niform, 1 mm long, externally puberulous; petals 2 or 3, free or basally connate, ± cuneate to reniform, 0.75 mm long, glabrous; carpel subellipsoidal, 1 mm long, stigma 3-5-lobed. Drupes sessile, rotund in outline, 7 mm ø, glabrous or subglabrous. Endocarp bearing 4 dorsal rows of tubercles.
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