Woody vine. Branchlets (slender, up to 5 mm ø, their distal part often curved and similar to a tendril), petioles, peduncles and leaves (mainly on the nerves of the undersurface) hirsute by short greyish and longer (1-2 mm) rufous and more spreading hairs, ultimately glabrescent. Leaves oblong to broadly oblong, or lanceolate, apex short-acuminate, subacute, base slightly cordate, char-taceous, olivaceous, glabrous or almost so except the hirsute midrib above, the tomentum on the undersurface rather soft to the touch, denticulate by protruding veins in young, entire in mature leaves, 10-22(-30) by (2.5-)3-10 cm, nerves 6-8(-10) pairs, two of them ± basal, short and spreading, the other ones curved-ascending, raised beneath only as is the coarse net of veins and veinlets; petiole 1-2(-3) cm by 2-3(-4) mm. ♂ Inflorescences in globular peduncled heads, solitary, from a little above the axils of subsequent leaves of the distal part of a branchlet; peduncle slender, c. 1 cm; heads covered with a pale fer-rugineous tomentum of short bristly hairs, 5-8 mm ø. Calyx segments 4 or 5, linear-spathulate, c. 2.5 mm. Petals 4, elongate-obovate, connate halfway to ¾, hirsute dorsally, c. 3 mm. Stamens 4; filaments 1.5-2 mm; anther cells subovate-elliptic, 1 mm. ♀ Inflorescences as the ♂ ones on young branchlets in axillary solitary heads, on peduncle c. 2 cm by 2 mm. Calyx segments and petals as in ♂. Ovary ovoid, short-attenuate to a conical very shortly lobed stigma, hirsute. Drupes collected to heads of c. 4 cm ø, each drupe ovoid, hirsute by simple bristly hairs all of the same type, known up to 2.5 by 1.5 cm, apparently larger at full maturity, accrescent petals seen up to 6 mm. Form, size and type of pits of the endocarp not yet known.
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