Woody liana to 3 m high, with slender branches covered with a greyish indumentum of minute stel-late hairs. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate or broadly ovate, 1.8-4.7 by 0.6-2.5 cm, chartaceous, base cuneate or rounded, apex curving into an acute apicu-lum, midrib slightly channeled above, prominent be-low, lateral veins rather obscure, upper surface of mature leaves glabrous or with sparse remnants of small stellate hairs, lower surface covered with a dense fine greyish white felt of stellate hairs; petiole to 5 mm long, puberulous. Inflorescence: axillary, few-flowered pleiochasia, c. 2 cm long, covered with a short dense indumentum, and bearing subulate bracts; pedicels 3-7 mm. Male receptacle bowl-shaped, 4-5 mm Ø at anthesis (without the tepals) with 5 or 6 deltoid, acute tepals, outer surface densely covered with minute stellate hairs, inner surface with short simple hairs; stamens 15-20, filaments c. 0.4 mm, anthers c. 0.8 mm long. Female receptacle subglobose, 2-2.5 mm Ø, with a terminal ostiole sur-rounded by 5 minute obtuse tepals, indumentum of outer surface similar to that of male, inner surface covered with long simple hairs between the carpels; carpels 10-15, tapering to filiform styles which pro-ject through the ostiole. Immature fruit subglobose, splitting at maturity to reveal 1-5 drupes.
Sprawling over undergrowth in montane forest or climbing to 3 m, also in disturbed forest and tree-fern savanna, 2700-2850 m.
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