Climber. Branchlets slender (5-7 mm ø), deeply striate and brownish-hirsute, older parts laxly set with hardly pungent small emergences. Leaves broadly oblong, apex for 3-10 mm subabruptly acuminate, base slightly cordate, firmly charta-ceous, glabrous above except nerves, covered with soft hairs all over the undersurface, and with stiffer ones on midrib and nerves, soft to the touch, entire, 7-17 by 4-8(-9) cm, midrib and nerves flat or a little impressed above, markedly prominent beneath, nerves 2 basal pairs (of which the outer pair is short, the inner one ascending to the lower ⅓ of the length of the lamina), other pinnate nerves 6-8 pairs, rather straight and sub-parallel to each other and the inner basal pair, reticulation of veins and veinlets fine and hardly raised above, more coarse and much raised beneath; petiole 2-3.5 cm by 2-3 mm, hirsutulous. ♂ Inflorescences spike-like, several in a fascicle from a tubercle of the stem (c. 1.5 cm ø), pendent, the heads of flowers sessile or very shortly pe-duncled and (2-)3-6 of them fascicled, these fascicles spaced in the lower, less or not so in the upper half of the rachis (10-30 cm by 2 mm), the whole inflorescence covered with shorter soft and longer stiff-brownish hairs; peduncle of flower heads slender, up to 4 mm, the basal bract subulate, 2-3 mm, apparently early going. Calyx segments 4, ovate, fleshy, concave, hirsute, 0.8 mm. Petals 3 or 4, connate to the lower ⅓ to ½, ovate-oblong, subacuminate, green, ± densely substrigose dorsally, c. 1.5 mm. Stamens 3 or 4; anther cells ovate-elliptic, 0.4 mm. ♀ Inflorescences unknown yet. Drupe unknown yet.
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