Scandent shrub, the floriferous branchlets 2.5–3 cm. in diameter.. Leaves unknown.. Inflorescences 2–6-fasciculate, borne at thickened leafless nodes, paniculate or pseudoracemose, 5–7 cm. long, the rhachis pale ferruginous tomentose with very dense stiff sharply pointed hairs; individual cymules subcapitate, 3–5-flowered with stalks 5–8 mm. long; pedicels 2 mm. long; bracts ± 2 mm. long.. Male flowers: calyx-lobes 5, joined to middle, elliptic, 5 mm. long, 1.8(–4) mm. wide (see note), broadly imbricate, subacute, densely pale ferruginous tomentose outside; petals 4, slightly exceeding the sepals (or only 2.5×1.5 mm. – see note) the lower 1/3 comprising a thick claw, blade membranous, the margin crenate-lobulate, scale adnate to petal above the claw, with a variable deeply lobed or lobulate crest slightly exceeding the margin of the scale; stamens 7 (3 mm. long in fragment) with elongate pilose filaments slightly exceeding the petals; anthers large (1.5 mm. long in fragment), glabrous, dorsally affixed, the connective drying black, dilated; disk fleshy, very excentric, lobulate, glabrous; rudimentary ovary absent.. Female flowers unknown.. Fruits unknown.
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