Stem-parasitic shrub with branches to several metres long. Branchlets either with haustoria and scale leaves and twining, or leafy and non-twining, acutely angular. Scale leaves boat-shaped, acute, c. 1 mm long. Normal leaves ovate to obovate, the apex rounded; lamina 2-10 cm long, 3-5-nerved, narrowed to petiole up to 1 cm long. Flowers clustered in leaf and branch axils or along branchlets, shortly pedicellate or sessile, subtended by bracts forming an involucre. Tepals triangular, c. 1 mm long, green. Male flowers ±globose on narrowed receptacle; staminal filaments short, thick. Female flowers ±campanulate, c. 2 mm long. Drupe ovoid, 6-8 mm long, narrowed at apex and crowned by tepals, pink.
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