Suffrutescent vine with subquadrangular stem, densely pilose, hairs spread-ing, golden brown, to 3 mm long. Leaves ovate elliptic, to 15 cm long and 9 cm wide, apically acuminate or caudate, basally cordate, densely brown pilose on both the surfaces, the hairs ascending, ca. 2 mm long, the costa and the lateral veins especially prominent beneath, the veinlets forming coarse, conspicuous reticulations beneath, the margins entire; petioles to 2.5 cm long, 0.75 cm wide at the base, enlarging to 1.5 mm wide at the tips, densely brown pilose, hairs spreading, to 6 mm long. Inflorescence with the bracts ovate elliptic, to 3 cm long and 1 mm wide, the bracts apically caudate, the cauda ca. 5 mm long, shallowly cordate at the base, densely brown pilose on both the surfaces, spreading and ascending, to 6 mm long. Flowers with the calyx annular, ca. 2 mm long; corolla not seen; fruit obovate, flattened, 2.3 cm long, 1.3 cm wide, 5 mm thick, apically rounded, surface puberulous.
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