Dioecious liana, sometimes a shrub. Branches scattered shaggy pilose when young, gradually glabrescent, finally greyish brown. Leaves elliptic to lanceolate, 13-19 by 4-7 cm, herbaceous, sparsely, shaggy pilose, especially on the nerves beneath; glands rather many, scattered all over the lower surface; base acute; apex tapering acute-acuminate; leaf base acute to blunt; midrib and nerves slightly sunken above, prominent beneath; nerves 8-10 pairs, curved, distinctly interarching. Inflorescences glomerulous, c. 1 cm long, many-flowered, shaggy pilose. Flowers (female unknown) 3 mm. Calyx shaggy fulvous pilose. Petals spathulate, slightly incised at the apex, glabrous. Disk-lobes nail-shaped, 0.25 mm, thickened and tuberculate in the broadened upper part, glabrous. Pistilloid woolly pubescent. Fruits 1-3, subsessile, 2-3-lobed, ovate, c. 13 by 16 mm, densely fulvous-tomentose, with distinct sutures.
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