Scandent shrub. Branchlets slender, laxly hirsute with shorter and longer hairs, as are the petioles. Leaves ovate, apex broadly subacuminate-attenuate, base rounded and very shallowly or hardly cordate, membranous, glabrous and olivaceous in dry state above, rather laxly and finely short-hairy on the undersurface, entire, somewhat repand or shortly (c. 5 mm) 1-2-lobed on each side, 7-11 by 5-9 cm, midrib and nerves faint above, a little raised beneath, 2 pairs of basal nerves, the outer pair rather short, the inner one ascending to ½-¾ the length of the lamina, upper lateral ones c. 3 pairs, curved-anastomosing, reticulation coarse and faint, less obvious than in M. reticulata; petiole 2-3 cm by 0.5-1 mm. ♂ Inflorescence unknown. ♀ Inflorescence axillary, solitary peduncles c. 3 cm, each bearing c. 5 umbellately arranged flowers. Calyx lobes ovate-acuminate, hairy, 1-1.5 mm. Petals united below into a c. 5 mm long tube, free lobes oblong, subglabrous, 2.5 mm. Submature drupe oblongoid-ellipsoid, slightly hairy, 1-1.3 cm long, narrowed downwards to a slender stalk as long as the fruit proper.
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