Stems slender and delicate, unarmed, climbing dex-trorsely, glabrous; leaves alternate; petioles 0.5-1 cm. long, glabrous; leaf blades lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, very small, up to 4 cm. long and 2 cm. wide, acuminate, rounded at base, entire, membranous, glabrous, 5-nerved; staminate racemes 1 or 2 in an axil, up to 15 cm. long, unbranched, the rhachis glabrous; flowers solitary or in short, few-flowered racemes, pedicellate, the pedicels 1.5-2.5 mm. long, glabrous; perianth segments lanceolate, about 1.5 mm. long, connate at base, reflexed; stamens 6, all fertile, central; filaments slender, erect, free, about 0.5 mm. long; anthers minute, about 0.2 mm. long, extrorse; pistillate flowers and capsules unknown.
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