Dioecious (?) liana. Branchlets densely fulvous-tomentose, glabrescent, purple-brown, sparsely lenticellate. Leaves c. 1 cm long petioled, blade elliptic, 16-20 by 9-11 cm, chartaceous, when young fulvous-hairy mainly on midrib and nerves, later subglabrous, lower surface with scattered small glands mainly in the basal part; base rounded, slightly attenuate; apex rather gradually, shortly, broadly, and bluntly acuminate; nerves 6-8 per side, curved, only the upper 2 or 3 more or less distinctly looped and joined near the margin. Inflorescences shortly (2½-5 mm) and thickly peciun-cled, with 2 spirally recurved, c. 1.5 cm long, densely and shortly fulvous-hairy cincinni which are densely covered on one side with two rows of alternating flowers, on the other side with the bracts. Flowers seen in bud only, male unknown. Petals rather deeply bifid, outside sparsely appressed-hairy. Disk lobes low, broad, slightly bi-to trifid, long woolly-ciliate. Ovary densely fulvous woolly, 2-celled; style 1, cylindrical, short, with 2 spreading stigmas. Fruits about semi-elliptic, flattened, 20 by 13 by 9 mm, densely fulvous-velvety; pericarp with broad suture; 1-seeded.
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