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Leaves petiolate; lamina (5) 7–12 × (2·5) 3·5–5 cm., obovate-rhombic to oblong, rounded to apiculate or shortly acuminate at the apex, broadly to narrowly cuneate or decurrent at the base, remotely and shallowly serrate, subcoriaceous, ± densely appressed-or subappressed-pubescent along the midrib above and below, on lateral nerves below and at the base of the lamina, otherwise glabrous (more rarely wholly glabrous), with the midrib and 9–12 pairs of lateral nerves impressed above and prominent below, and the densely reticulate tertiary venation prominent on both sides; petiole (5) 6–10 (11) mm. long, subappressed-chocolate-pubescent; stipules 5–10 mm. long, 3-fid or 4–7-pinnatifid with subulate lobes, long-appressed-pubescent outside, glabrous and ribbed within, persistent.
Shrub or small liane; branches striate and with short ± spreading chocolate-brown pubescence when young, eventually (3rd year) terete, glabrescent, with cream-brown bark and numerous raised whitish lenticels.
Sepals 9–10 mm. long, ovate to lanceolate-elliptic, the outer ones acute or subacute, the inner ones rounded, shallowly vertically ribbed, appressed-chocolate-pubescent outside, glabrous within.
Flowers solitary or paired, in axils of foliage leaves; peduncles 4–8 mm. long, stout, subappressed-chocolate-pubescent.
Petals yellow, 20–30 mm. long, obovate, emarginate at the apex, with margin pubescent, otherwise glabrous.
Ovary c. 4 mm. long, ovoid, glabrous; styles 3–5, glabrous, free; stigmas broadly and obliquely capitate.
Drupe c. 1·5 cm. in diameter, subglobose, with thin brown pericarp and 3–5 fertile 1-seeded loculi.
Stamens with linear glabrous filaments; anthers ovate-oblong, with apical tuft of hairs.
Seeds c. 8 mm. long, whitish.
