Tall woody climber. Stem of branchlets shallowly striate, patently rufous-setose distally as are the petioles, corky and with numerous roundish len-ticels (no prickles) downwards, 4-6 mm ø. Leaves ovate in circumference, whether or not 3-lobed to ½-⅔, lateral lobes acutish, base shallowly cordate, thin-coriaceous, subdensely short-tomentu-lose on both faces initially, glabrescent and a little rough above, soft to the touch beneath, 12-19 by 8-11 cm, palmately 5-nerved, midrib and inner pair of basal nerves more prominent than the other basal and the few upper lateral ones beneath, reticulation coarse, strongly raised beneath; petiole 3-6 cm by 2-3 mm. ♂ Panicles from bare lower part of stem (1.5 cm ø), sessile, pendulous, grey-green, squirreltail-like, 12-23 by 3.5-4 cm, formed by numerous peduncled dicha-sia, the ultimate pedicels (3-6mm) bearing globular heads consisting of numerous flowers, all densely shortly greyish-pubescent; bract of each globule partly connate with pedicel, slender, almost filiform, persistent, spreading, its basal part hardly or not widened, short-pubescent, upper part plumose by spreading rufous 2-3 mm long hairs. Calyx segments 4 or 5, irregularly obcuneate, 1 mm, free, apex fringed with long hairs. Petals 4, ovate-oblong, connate to the lower ⅓, sparsely short-hairy or papillose outside, 1.5 mm. Stamens 4, slightly exserted; anther cells elliptic, 0.5 mm. ♀ Inflorescences not yet known. Drupe not yet known.
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