Large liana, 25 m by 27 2 cm ø; stems sulcate and densely lenticellate; twigs terete, smooth. Leaves glabrous, elliptic, acuminate, 11-17 by 6-7.5 cm, firmly chartaceous; nerves 9 pairs, arcuate, united before the margin, prominent beneath; petiole 12 mm. ♀ Inflorescence cauliflorous, not branched, in fruiting state 9 cm, rachis 5 mm ø; peduncle 8 mm; collars initially infundibuliform, later 1 cm wide. ♂ Flowers unknown. ♀ Flowers immersed in a dense hair-cushion, cream flushed with pink, acute-ovoid, apex upcurved; external involucre fleshy, 4 by 2 mm, 0.5 mm thick, median one conical, thin, 2 by 1 mm, internal one chartaceous, ampullaceous, 1.5 by 0.8 mm, lengthened into a thin apical tube 2 mm exserted, fid at apex. Fruit acute-ovoid, slightly curved, 3.5 by 1¾ cm; external involucre fleshy, 1 mm thick, median one hard, glossy and fibrous, internal one chartaceous, glossy; nucellus with embryo 2½ by ¾ cm, acute-ovoid.
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