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Leaf blades 4–14 × 1.5–6.5 cm, elliptic to broadly elliptic or sometimes oblong-elliptic, acute to acuminate or sometimes abruptly acuminate at apex, acute or rounded at base, subcoriaceous, moderately shiny to shiny on upper surface; lateral nerves in (4)5–8 main pairs, often impressed above; tertiary nerves completely obscure; domatia absent, or present as unerupted or erupted blisters; petioles 5–9 mm long; stipules 4–7 mm long, truncate at the base and with a linear to narrowly oblong decurrent lobe with plane face perpendicular to the stem.
Corolla white or cream; tube 3.75–6 mm long, with a ring of deflexed hairs below the mid-point inside; lobes 3.5–6 × 1.25–2.5 mm, triangular-lanceolate, with a tapering apiculum 0.75–1.75 mm long, sparsely pubescent towards base on upper surface.
Scandent shrub or climber 1.5–7 m tall, with short perpendicular or somewhat backwardly curved lateral branches, glabrous; young branches round to square in cross section, occasionally furrowed; bark fawn-coloured.
Flowers 5-merous, borne in 2–15-flowered sessile to shortly pedunculate umbellate cymes; peduncles 0–4 mm long; pedicels 5–8 mm long in flowering stage, glabrous; bracteoles glabrous.
Pyrene 7 mm wide, semicircular to almost circular in outline, with a shallow groove from the point of attachment to the centre, cartilaginous, scarcely bullate.
Fruit 7–7.5 × 14–15 mm, almost bispherical, greyish-green, sometimes galled; pedicels accrescent.
Pollen presenter 1–1.75 mm long, ± cylindrical, widening towards the base.
Calyx tube 1 mm long, glabrous; limb reduced to a dentate ciliate rim.
Style 7.5–10 mm long.
Anthers reflexed.
Disk glabrous.
