Shrub, scandent shrub or liana, to 10 m tall, diameter to 3 cm; young branches reddish brown, with scattered appressed or erect light-brown hairs 0.4 mm long, quickly glabrescent, old branches dark brown with (whitish) lenticels. Leaves: petioles 2-4 x 0.7-1 mm, grooved adaxially, indumentum as branches; leaf lamina 2.8-6.7(-8.1) x 1.5-3.3 cm, length:width ratio 1.6-2.7(-3.3), elliptic to ovate or slightly obovate, base cuneate to rounded, with slightly thickened margins, apex obtuse to acute, chartaceous/coriaceous, discolorous, upper side shiny dark-green, lower side glaucous to light green, upper side soon glabrescent, lower surface with appressed yellowish/light brown hairs 0.2 mm long, glabrescent, venation eucamptodromous, midrib yellowish or reddish, secondary veins 5-8, from base curving upwards, tertiary venation reticulate, raised adaxially and slightly abaxially, or not visible abaxially, often pellucid-punctate. Inflorescences leaf-opposed, composed of a solitary flower or a 2-3 flowered rhipidium; sympodial rachis 0-3 mm; flowering pedicels 6-14 x 0.3-0.4 mm, glabrescent; lower bracts broadly ovate, 1.5 x 1.4 mm; upper bracts broadly triangular to ovate, placed near middle of pedicel, 0.5 x 0.5 mm; flower buds ovate, dried greyish yellowish with yellow margins. Flowers bisexual; receptacle 2-3 mm in diameter, flat, with short brown hairs between the carpels and stamens; sepals 3, 0.5-0.7 x 1.5-2 mm, broadly ovate, with short reddish brown pubescence near the margins, apex obtuse; petals pale yellowish to yellow, inside drying reddish brown to purple. 6 in two whorls; outer petals, 2.5-4 x 3.2-4 mm, broad ovate, shortly pubescent with yellowish hairs on the outside, more densely pubescent near margins, inside densely pubescent at the apex; inner petals, 3.0-3.4 x 1.7-2.2 ovate to elliptic, outside and inside pubescent at apex; stamens 12-15 in one or two whorls, free, obconic to clavate, 0.8-1.2 mm long, filaments 0.4-0.8 mm long, anthers latrorse, theca 0.3-0.5 mm, connective glabrous, truncate, staminodes 0; carpels 10-13, 1.2-1.6 x 0.4-0.5 mm, subcylindric to ellipsoid, glabrous except for some hairs at the base, 1 (-2) ovules, stigma elongate, 0.3-0.4 mm long, grooved, glabrous. Fruits: pedicels 8-14 x 0.4-0.9 mm; sepals persistent; stipes 2.5-4.0 mm long, slightly to strongly longitudinally grooved, sparsely covered with appressed hairs when young; monocarps1-10, globose to elliptic with 1(-2) seed, 7.5-15 x 5 mm, 2-seeded ones to 19 mm long, slightly constricted between the seeds, apex apiculate, apex 0.5 mm, rugulose to smooth, glabrous in ripe fruits, ripe fruits bright red. Seeds 5.5-8.0 x 4.5-6.6 mm, globose to ellipsoid, both ends rounded, ochre-brown, raphe not visible, ruminations lamelliform. Flowers collected in November, December and February to April.
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