Liana, lianescent shrub or shrub.. Stem and branches glabrous, usually with small lenticels, those on the orthotropic shoots often in rows; branchlets sparsely to densely puberulous-tomentellous, usually soon glabrescent, the same indumentum present on stipules and petioles.. Stipules usually soon deciduous, narrowly triangular, 1–3 mm. long.. Petiole 1–5 mm. long; blade elliptic, often narrowly so, sometimes ovate or obovate, 5–10(–14) × (1.5–)2–4(–6) cm., obtuse to cuneate at base, gradually acuminate or acute at apex, the acumen obtuse, acute or mucronate, 0.5–1(–1.5) cm. long, sparsely appressed puberulous when young, mainly so on midrib and main lateral nerves, soon glabrescent, the midrib often impressed above, the (5–)6–8(–10) main lateral nerves on each side often hardly visible above, fairly prominent and often paler beneath.. Inflorescences usually shortly peduncled, 1–3 times distinctly branched, up to ± 30-flowered, brown tomentellous; peduncle 0–4(–9) mm. long; bracts and bracteoles ovate-triangular, up to 1 mm. long; pedicel up to 3 mm. long, the upper part very short or absent.. Sepals erect to slightly spreading, free or shortly united at base, oblong or nearly so, 2–3 × 1–1.5 mm., obtuse to acute, densely brown tomentellous on both surfaces or inside only so on apical part.. Petals erect, ± narrowly elliptic in outline, 1.5–2.5 mm. long, split 0.5–1.5 mm., glabrous or partly short-hairy at base both sides or outside only.. Stamens 1.5–2.5 mm. long, glabrous; filaments often curved inwards.. Pistil (2–)3-merous, 1–2 mm. long; ovary densely lanate; style glabrous, shortly (2–)3-lobed at top.. Fruits obovoid-ellipsoid, up to ± 2.5 cm. long and 1.5 cm. in diameter, densely rusty-brown tomentellous to velutinous; endocarp densely subappressed brown hairy inside.. Seed ovoid, ± 1.5 cm. long, 1 cm. in diameter.
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