Vines. Stems with warty-appearing bark. Leaves thick, glabrous except on the veins beneath, oblong-elliptic to ovate, acuminate, basally truncate to slightly rounded, 6-10 cm long and 3-4 cm wide; petiole sparsely pubescent, 0.5-1 cm long. Inflorescences umbelliform, 1-or few-flowered; peduncle 3-5 mm long; pedicels 12-15 mm long or more. Flowers yellow; calyx lobes ovate, ca. 2 mm long and 1.5 mm wide, glabrous, margins ciliate; corolla campanulate, glabrous, the tube ca. 2.5 mm long, the lobes oblong-ovate, obtuse, ciliolate, 3-4 mm long and ca. 2 mm wide; corona lobes subquadrate, apiculate, ca. 2 mm long. Fruit (described from Colombian material) borne singly, terete or nearly so, fusiform, apically long acuminate, 11-22 cm long, ca. 7.5-9.5 mm in diameter, smooth, glabrous.
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