Liane; stems thin, pubescent, golden-brown when young.. Tendrils usually inserted at right-angles to leaves.. Leaf-blade ovate to oblong-ovate, 7.0–11.0 cm. long, 3–7 cm. wide, shortly acuminate to subacute, rounded at base, sometimes unequal-sided, paper-like, glabrous, glossy green above, glabrous to sparsely pubescent beneath with tufts of yellow-brown hairs at the junctions of the secondary veins and midrib; midrib impressed above, prominent beneath; secondary veins prominent beneath; petiole 6–10 mm. long.. Male flowers: sepals (3–)4, minute, united at the base; lobes deltoid, up to 1 mm. long; petals 4, practically free to the base, glabrous within, sparsely pubescent outside; stamen-filaments short (1–2 mm. long); anthers saddle-shaped; ovary very rudimentary, usually replaced by a few hairs.. Female flowers: sepals and petals as in male; ovary ovoid; stigma sessile, flat, discoidal, irregular in outline.. Fruit subglobose, up to 1 cm. in diameter, glabrous; endocarp woody.. Fig. 6.
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