Climber, probably terrestrial, height unknown. Stems terete or slightly angular or flattened, 6-9 mm diam., internodes 10-15 cm long, axillary buds 3-10 mm long, inserted 5-10 mm above the node; rosettes and short stems unknown. Leaves of climbing stems coriaceous, sessile, oblanceolate or oblanceolate-spathulate, 18-20 by 3.5-4.5 cm, apex acute, base attenuate, 2 cm wide, subperfoliate-adnate, decurrent as two attenuate wings for 4-6 cm to the node below, wings up to 1 cm wide. Longitudinal nerves indistinct. Pennate nerves oblique, soon curving towards the margin and forming one or rarely two longitudinal nerves near the margin. Lower and upper pitchers not known. Male inflorescence 22-27 cm long; peduncle 7.5 cm long, 4 mm diam. at base; partial peduncles 2-flowered; bracts absent; pedicels 12 mm long; tepals elliptic c. 4 mm long; androphore and anther head 4.5 mm long. Indumentum of stem velvety with dense coarse brown spreading hairs both short and branched and long and simple, up to 2 mm long; the same denser and longer on youngest stem, axils, leaf midrib below and basal part above; the same less dense, shorter and finer on the lower surface of the leaf blade; upper surface of blade densely hairy with short, white, simple hairs; peduncle and rhachis of inflorescence densely hirsute with red-brown hairs; pedicels lower tepals and androphore with short crisped hairs. Colour of herbarium specimen fallow-dun to ochra-ceous brown, the indumentum dark red-brown.
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