Woody liana; young branches covered with a ful-vous or creamy indumentum. Leaves elliptic to broadly elliptic, with an apiculum (either long and at-tenuate or short), 7-15 by 3.5-7.3 cm, chartaceous or slightly coriaceous base truncate or rounded, midrib and principal veins prominent below, sometimes deeply impressed above, upper surface of mature leaves with scattered remnants of stellate hairs or gla-brous, lower surface densely covered with a close felt of small stellate hairs and with longer soft hairs along the veins (usually forming a prominent fringe, rarely almost absent); petiole 5-10 mm, hairy. Inflorescence axillary and terminal, c. 7-20 cm long, covered with a dense fulvous or creamy indumentum, nar-rowly paniculate, side-branches few-flowered. Male receptacle bowl-shaped becoming almost a flat disk at anthesis, with 5-7 irregular tepals, c. 8-10 mm ø, outer surface with a dense covering of short stellate hairs, inner surface with short simple hairs between the stamens; stamens c. 30-45, with broad filaments up to 0.5 mm long, anthers 0.75-1.5 mm long; filaments and connectives hairy. Female receptacle urceolate, c. 2 mm high at anthesis, outer surface with indumentum as in the male, inner surface with long simple hairs between the carpels; carpels c. 8-12, tapering to filiform style. Immature fruit globose with a beak (often asymmetrical); at maturity the enlarged receptacle splits open to form c. 5 coriaceous very irregular lobes c. 2 cm long; drupes subspherical, sessile; mesocarp succulent, endocarp stony, c. 7 mm long when dry.
Lower montane and mossy forest (Casta-nopsis, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Podocarpus, Libocedrus dominated), 1200-2750 m.
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