Dioecious ?liana, sometimes treelet. Branches velvety fulvous-pubescent, gradually glabrescent, purple-brown. Leaves elliptic, 6-10 by 2.5-4 cm, herbaceous, pilose along the margin, on the midrib above, and on midrib, nerves, and part of the veins beneath; some small glands scattered over the lower surface; base acute (to rounded); apex gradually acuminate, acumen usually long, blunt, mucronate; nerves 8-10 pairs, curved (rarely nearly straight), not or indistinctly interarching. Inflorescences 0.75 cm long, 1(-2)-flowered. Flowers (probably only female seen) 2.5 mm. Petals broad-spathulate, 1-1.25 mm long, c. 0.25 mm incised. Disk-lobes 0.2 mm high, 2-lobed, glabrous. Ovary woolly pubescent, 2-celled; styles 2, stigmas 2-lobed. Fruits 2(-1)-lobed, emarginate, 1.25 by 1.25 cm, with distinct sutures, densely velvety ferrugineous pubescent, slightly warty; seeds dark orange.
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