Small climber, leafy stem c. 2 mm diam., plant subglabrous; monoecious. Probract absent. Tendrils unbranched. Leaves: blade simple, unlobed. Flowers small; petals imbricate, pale yellow, free, entire. Male inflorescence a simple pedunculate raceme. Male flowers: pedicel short, receptacle-tube bowl-shaped, expanded corolla 10(-15) mm across; stamens 3, free, inserted c. halfway up the receptacle-tube; filaments short, anthers all 2-thecous, free, appressed into a subglobose head, thecae sigmoid, connective broad; disc absent or minute. Female flowers solitary, not associated with male inflorescence; pedicel long; ovary oblong, ovules many, horizontal; perianth as in male; staminodes 3, inserted near the throat of the receptacle-tube; disc obscure or absent; style conspicuous with feather-like divided stigma. Fruit berry-like, (narrowly) ellipsoid, 2-2.6 cm long; fruiting pedicel slender. Seeds many, foveolate, margin narrow, edge entire.
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