Liana, up to 6 cm thick, younger branches stellate-hirsute with very short dark rufous hairs, older ones with very few orbicular lenticels. Leaves coriaceous, shining deep green above, much paler beneath, elliptic-oblong to oblong, ovate-oblong, or obovate-oblong, 7-23 by 3½-12½ cm, 7-10-nerved; rather shortly acuminate from an obtuse apex, (acute to) obtuse to rounded, sometimes slightly cordate at the base; glabrous, with slightly sunken to slightly raised midrib and nerves and faintly sunken to faintly raised venation above; densely stellate-hirsute, very soon gla-brescent, with faintly raised to slightly sunken nerves and distinctly sunken venation beneath; margin often slightly recurved. Petiole 10-22 mm. Inflorescences terminal, often with some leaves in basal part, or axillary, 2-20 cm, 20-200-flowered. Pedicel 1-2½ mm. Sepals 1 & 2 broadly ovate, 1.6-2.5 by 1.5-2 mm, 4 & 5 transverse-oval, 1.3-1.9 by 2.2-2.6 mm; rather densely stellate-hirsute outside (hairs with 5-11 subequal, up to 250 µ long branches). Corolla pale yellow or yellow, 6-7 mm, tube 1½-2 mm; midpetaline field 3.2-3.7 by 1.7-2 mm, densely stellate-hirsute (hairs with 6-12 subequal, up to 250 µ long branches); lobules 2 by 2ll2 mm, without distinct venation, entire. Stamens inserted 0.5-0.9 mm above the corolla-base; filament 0.5-0.7 mm long, 0.3-0.5 mm broad at the base; anther 1.2 mm long, 0.4-0.6 mm broad, 0.3-0.4 mm thick, acute at the apex, slightly cordate at the base. Ovary 1 by 0.8-1.2 mm, glabrous in the lower 0.2-0.4 mm, stellate-hirsute in the upper part; stigma conical, with 10 low ridges. Fruit ellipsoid, 20 by 14 mm, dark brown, yellow, or aurantiaceous, with a dense indumentum of very short stellate hairs. Cotyledons plain.
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