Monoecious woody climber or creeper, sometimes shrub or small tree. Branchlets glabrous, black. Leaves elliptic (rarely ovate), 8-15 by 4-6.5 cm, thin-coriaceous to chartaceous, glabrous (except sometimes a few hairs on stipules and petiole), usually yellowish-to reddish-brown when dry; glands beneath few, mainly near the base; base slightly oblique, broadly cuneate to subrotundate; apex more or less acuminate, acumen short to rather long, broad, and blunt; nervation mostly inconspicuous, nerves (6-)8-10 pairs, straight, curved and distinctly interarching towards the margin. Inflorescences axillary, dichotomous, 1-1.5 cm long, stalked or not, with c. 15 flowers, scattered-pilose. Flowers 5 mm, bisexual, receptacle slightly hollowed. Petals narrowly spathulate, 4.5 mm long, 1 mm incised, glabrous. Disk-lobes 0.5 mm, glabrous to minutely tomentose, sometimes more or less mutually connate. Ovary densely patently stiff-pilose, 3-celled; style long and slender, nearly glabrous, stigma 3-lobed. Fruits solitary, on a thick 1 cm long stalk, 1(-2) lobed, usually oblique, 2.5 by 2-3 cm, densely minutely fulvous-tomentose; sutures absent.
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