Lianas; stems smooth to slightly angled, grayish-brown to brown. Leaves elliptic to lanceolate, 9-15(-25) cm long, the base obtuse to rounded, the apex acute to shortly acuminate, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, glabrescent. Inflores-cences terminal, paniculate-thyrsiform with reddish peltate glandular trichomes on the branches; bracts triangular to triangular-ovate, to 2 mm long, mostly per-sistent in flower, caducous in fruit. Flowers with pedicels 4-8(-12) mm long; sepals ovate to broadly ovate, 7-8 mm long, coriaceous to membranaceous, ciliate, the exterior lobes with reddish glandular basal trichomes, the interior lobes glabrous to appressed-pubescent outside; corolla lilac to pinkish, the tube base nearly white (living), 30-45 mm long. Fruits ellipsoid, broadly ellipsoid to suborbicular, 20-30 mm in diameter, the surface smooth to reticulate, yellow and turning brown to dark brown; seeds ovoid, 20-22 mm long, 11-13 mm in diameter.
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A creeper. The stems are smooth or slightly angled and grey-brown. The leaves are thin and narrowly oval. They are 9-15 cm long and the base is rounded. They taper to a short tip. The flowers are in a group at the ends of branches. The flower stalks are 4-8 mm long. The fruit is broadly oval to round and 2-3 cm across. It can have a netlike surface. They are yellow and turn brown. The seeds are oval and 2 cm long by 1 cm thick.
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