Woody liana to 22 m high, branches and foliage glabrous. Leaves oblong-elliptic, occasionally lan-ceolate-elliptic, 7.5-15.5 by 1.7-6 cm, chartaceous, apex with an apiculum (often long and narrow), base cuneate, midrib slightly channelled above, prominent below, lateral veins c. 6, well-defined, meeting within the margin; petiole 0.75-1 cm. Inflorescence axillary and terminal, either simple unbranched pleiochasia (often grouped at the ends of branches to resemble panicles) or with long lateral branches forming a panicle-like inflorescence, the rachis 4.5-10 cm, with lateral branches up to 4 cm; male inflorescences often larger and more openly branched at anthesis than females. Male receptacles bowl-shaped becoming almost disk-shaped at anthesis, c. 5.5 mm Ø (without the tepals), margin produced into c. 5-7 irregular tepals, outer surface of tepals minutely pubescent; stamens c. 18, subsessile; anthers c. 0.75 mm. Female receptacle globular, 2.5 mm Ø, with a terminal ostiole surrounded by 5 mi-nute obtuse tepals, a few microscropic hairs present on the tepals, the inner surface of the receptacle bearing long simple hairs between the carpels; carpels c. 8, tapering to filiform styles which project through the ostiole. Immature fruit globose or irregularly bulged, with an asymmetric beak, mature fruit not seen.
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