Liana, lianescent shrub or shrub.. Branches glabrous or glabrescent, with minute dispersed lenticels; branchlets densely tomentose, usually glabrescent and lenticellate with age.. Stipules early caducous, narrowly triangular, 1–4 mm. long, tomentose.. Petiole (3–)4–6(–10) mm. long, tomentose; blade coriaceous, elliptic, ovate-elliptic or ovate, (3–)6–11(–15) × (2–)3–5(–8) cm., base equal or slightly unequal, rarely strongly unequal, cuneate, rounded, or sometimes obtuse, gradually tapering into a rounded, subacute, or acuminate tip, the acumen up to ± 1 cm. long; midrib and the (4–)5–7(–8) pairs of lateral nerves inconspicuous above, prominent beneath, tertiary venation reticulate, often prominent on both surfaces, shortly pubescent on both surfaces, often densely so when young, glabrescent above, beneath never completely glabrous; margin often strongly revolute.. Inflorescences 3–5 times branched, tomentose; peduncle (4–)6–11(–13) mm. long; bracts and bracteoles minute, triangular, up to ± 1 mm. long; pedicel up to 2.5 mm. long or flowers sessile to subsessile; upper part of pedicel 0(–0.5) mm. long.. Sepals erect, spreading or reflexed, obovate-oblong, 2.5–3(–3.5) × 1–1.5 mm., obtuse to rounded, tomentose on both sides, more densely so outside.. Petals erect, narrowly oblong-obovate or spathulate in outline, 2.5–3.5 mm. long, split up to 1 mm. ± appressed pilose-tomentose outside below split, inside more loosely and often more densely pilose below split.. Stamens 2.5–3.5 mm. long, often very slightly shorter than the petals; filaments hairy like the petals, more sparsely so or subglabrous.. Pistil 2.5–3.5(–4) mm. long, lanate, the ovary densely so; ovary 3-locular, the lobes less than 1 mm. long at the top.. Fruits subellipsoid, often slightly curved and laterally slightly compressed, 14–20 mm. long, ± 9–15 mm. in diameter, 1–3-seeded, tuberculate, densely tomentellous; endocarp inside with a dense indumentum of up to 2.5 mm. long, often somewhat curly, rather weak hairs.. Seed subellipsoid, 8–14 mm. long, up to 7 mm. in diameter.
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