Small climber, 0.5-1 m long, root not known; leafy stem less than 1 mm diam., subglabrous or sparsely hairy; monoecious. Leaves: petiole 1.5-2.5 cm long; petiolules 0.2-0.4 cm long; blade filmy or membranous, (3-or) 5-foliolate, ovate in outline, 3-6 by 2.5-4.5 cm; the middle leaflet much longer than the lateral ones, with c. 5 pairs of faint lateral veins, both surfaces subglabrous or sparsely hairy, margin shallowly crenate-dentate. Inflorescences few-flowered, 1-2(-3) cm long, consisting of 1 (or 2) female flowers and later developing 1-3(-5) male flowers, inflorescence solitary or ± fascicled, sometimes only female or only male flowers present in one inflorescence, sometimes short peduncled inflorescences aggregated in raceme-like short shoots; branches and pedicels hairy; peduncle 0.5-2 cm long; bracts narrow, acute, 1 mm long or less. Male flowers: pedicel 2-5 mm long, glabrous or hairy, articulate at c. 1/3 from the apex; perianth glabrous, c. 3 mm diam.; receptacle shallow, less than 0.5 mm wide; sepals ovate-narrowly elliptic, 0.7(-1) mm long; petals ovate-narrowly elliptic, c. 1.5 mm long, entire or somewhat incised, long-acuminate in upper 1/3; staminal column c. 0.3 mm long, synandrium 0.3(-0.4) mm diam., anthers sessile, subglobose, c. 0.2 mm diameter. Female flowers: pedicel 2-5 mm long, articulate at apex; ovary (sub)hemi-globose, c. 0.6 mm diam., glabrous; perianth 2.5-3 mm diam.; sepals c. 0.5 mm long; petals ovate-narrowly elliptic, 1(-1.5) mm long, acuminate; styles 3 (rarely 4), with stigma each c. 1 mm long. Fruit solitary, ripening light green, globose, 0.5-0.7 cm diam., with persistent sepals and styles and with 3 (not opening) valve-sutures; fruiting pedicel 0.4-0.6 cm long. Seeds 2 or 3 per berry, (pale) brown, ± triangular-ovate, 2.5-3 by 2-2.5 by 1 mm, faces irregularly low-warty, margin narrow.
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