Woody liana, with young branches covered in greyish tomentum. Leaves elliptic-oblong, 9-18 by 3.5-8 cm, chartaceous, base rounded or broadly cuneate, apex shortly acuminate, upper surface becoming glabrous (except for puberulence above the midrib), lower surface evenly covered with a close, fine, greyish-white indumentum, midrib and arched later-al veins prominent below, impressed above; petiole 6-10 mm, puberulous. Inflorescence densely greyish pubescent, axillary and terminal, narrowly paniculate, up to 12 cm, with branches c. 2-3 cm. Male flowers globose, c. 2 mm ø (in bud), apex de-pressed with 5 tepals, outer surface densely covered with a close indumentum of stellate hairs; stamens c. 20-24, broadly deltoid, c. 0.75 mm long, sessile. Female flowers not known. Immature fruits sub-spherical with an asymmetric beak; at maturity the enlarged receptacle ruptures irregularly to form coriaceous lobes c. 2 cm long; drupes subspherical, c. 7 by 5 mm, sessile.
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