Woody climber up to 15 m or more high. Branchlets puberulous to pubescent with yellowish hairs, later glabrescent. Leaves: petioles 2.5-4 cm, yellowish pubescent to glabrous; lamina ovate to ovate-lanceolate or broadly ovate, (5—)7—11 by 3—7.5(—12) cm, apex obtuse to acutely acuminate, mucronate, base truncate, rounded or very obtuse (rarely subcordate), 3-5-nerved; lateral nerves 1-2 pairs; both surfaces softly pubescent to glabrous; papyraceous. Inflorescences axillary, solitary or 2-3 arising together, pseudo-racemose with flowers often in small clusters of about 3-5 along main axis, 4-17 cm long, yellowish tomentose to pubescent. Male flowers yellow on pedicels 1—3(—7) mm; sepals 6(-12), outer 3(-6) bracteoliform, ± elliptic, 1-2 mm long, puberulous outside, inner 3(-6) elliptic to rotund, 1.5-2.5 by 1.25-1.5 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy outside; petals 6, ± oblong, with basal auricles clasping opposite stamen, 1-1.5 mm long, glabrous; stamens 6, filaments slender, 1.25-1.5 mm. Female flowers: sepals and petals similar to male, carpels 3, ± ovoid, 0.75 mm long, style flattened, staminodes 6, minute. Drupes on pedicels c. 3-5 mm long, subcompressed, ± obovoid, 7-8 by 6 mm, 5 mm thick, glabrous, rather smooth.
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Climber, yellowish pubescent, especially on inflorescences, young stems and usually petioles and lamina below. Leaves: petiole 2.5–5 cm long; lamina usually ovate-lanceolate to broadly ovate, 5–15 cm long, 3–10 cm wide, 3–5-veined at base, with main basal veins usually extending more than half length of lamina but not extending to leaf margin, sometimes glabrous. Inflorescences 4–17 cm long, with flowers often in clusters of c. 3–5. Male flowers: pedicel usually 1–3 mm long; sepals yellow, with inner 3 or 6 elliptic to rotund and 1.5–2.5 mm long; petals 1–1.5 mm long; stamens 1.25–1.5 mm long. Female flowers: staminodes minute; carpels 0.75 mm long. Drupes 7–8 mm long, drying smooth, glabrous.
A climber or vine. The vine can be 10 cm across. The leaves are 4-15 cm long by 2-9 cm wide. The flowering shoots are 5-15 cm long. The fruit are round and 6-7 mm across.
Grows in evergreen to deciduous notophyll vine forest, also in rainforest, grassland-beach scrub and coastal vine thicket, in a wide variety of soils.
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On seashores and in lowland forests, up to 100 m, also in seasonal regions.
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