Woody vines 30-40 cm tall. Stems terete, striate, with small bullate tubercles, more dense when mature. Petiole flat, 5-7 mm; leaf blade variable in shape, usually obovate to suborbicular, 2-4.5 × 2-3.5 cm, papery, basal veins 7-9, prominent on both surfaces, base cuneate, margin cartilaginous, minutely crisped, apex obtuse. Male inflorescences fasciculate, 6-flowered; peduncle 0.5-1 mm. Female inflorescences 1-5-flowered; peduncle 1-1.5 mm. Flowers unisexual (plants dioecious). Male flowers: perianth lobes triangular, ca. 0.8 mm; stamen filaments short. Female flowers: bracteoles several, ovate, ca. 2 × 1 mm, apex acute; perianth yellow, conic, ca. 1.8 mm, lobes 5, similar to male. Disk 5-angled. Style absent; stigma capitate. Drupe yellow, ovoid, ca. 4 mm, inconspicuously ridged. Fl. Dec-Mar, fr. May-Jul.
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