Slender climber. Stem 1.5-4 mm ø, hispid when young, later glabrescent and woody. Leaves with pu-berulous to glabrescent petioles 2-3 cm inserted 9-16 mm above the basal margin; lamina broadly ovate, apex acutely acuminate with acumen finely mucronate, base slightly emarginate, 7.5-10.5 by 5.5-9 cm; palmately 11-12-nerved; subglabrous above, puberulous below; papyraceous. Male inflorescences cauliflorous, 14 by 5 cm, puberulous, flowers crowded in dense clusters on lateral bran-ches. Male flowers subsessile or with puberulous pedicels up to 0.5 mm; calyx turbinate, sparsely pu-berulous, 1.25 mm long, lobes 4, broadly triangular, almost equal to length of tube; petals 4, free, 0.25 mm long, glabrous; synandrium 1 mm long, scarcely exserted. Female inflorescences similar to male. Female flowers sessile; sepals and petals unknown; carpel curved-ellipsoidal, 1 mm long, puberulous, stigma 3-laciniate. Drupes subrotund in outline, 5 by 5 mm, puberulous; endocarp bearing 3 rows of papilliform tubercles on both faces.
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