Stem a suffrutescent vine, scandent, subquadrangular, grooved, glabrous to sparingly and minutely strigose. Leaves elliptic to 12 cm long, blunt tip with a mucro 1-2 mm long, basally rounded, glabrous except for sparingly and mi-nutely strigose on the costa, the margins entire; petioles to 2.5 cm long, sparingly strigose. Flowers in axillary umbels of 5-10 flowers, radiating from short, flat, rounded, axillary spurs; pedicels ca. 1 cm long, sparingly strigose; bracts ovate, to 14 mm long, 7 mm wide, the apex acuminate, the base rounded sparingly strigose without; corolla white, to 1.5 cm long, glabrous, the tube ca. 8 mm long and 3 mm in diameter, slightly expanded at the base, the lobes obcordate, ca. 7 mm in diameter; stamens included, the filaments ca. 1.5 mm long.
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