Vines, woody. Branches striate, hispid. Petiole thick, 1.5-8 cm; leaf blade narrowly peltate, triangular-ovate, 3-12.6 × 2.7-12 cm, papery, abaxially grayish green, adaxially dark green and glossy, base slightly cordate to subtruncate, margin entire, ciliate, apex usually mucronate, palmately 7-veined, hispid along veins, reticulation conspicuous on both surfaces. Inflorescences racemose, composed of cymelets, axillary or cauliflorous. Male flowers: sepals 4, free, oblong-elliptic, 1.3-1.5 × 0.8-1 mm, apex obtuse; petals 4, free, slightly fleshy, ca. 0.2 mm, ca. as wide as long; synandrium ca. 0.8 mm. Female flowers unknown. Infructescences 2-5.5 cm. Drupes oblate, ca. 4 mm in diam., with many tubercles; endocarp abaxially bearing 5 or 6 rows of sinuous rugae. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Oct-Nov.
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