Scandent shrub c. 10 m. Young stems striate, glabrous, 2-5 mm ø, bearing raised, discoid petiole-scars; older stems rather smooth or obscurely wrinkled. Leaves with glabrous petioles (2-)3-4 cm, broadened at the very base, geniculate and drying minutely wrinkled towards the apex; lamina ovate, base broadly and shallowly cordate, apex shortly and obtusely acuminate, 9-14.5 by 6.5-10.5 cm, lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, the lowest 2-3 pairs arising close together near the base, the midrib, lateral nerves and conspicuous reticulate tertiary venation slightly raised on both surfaces, glabrous, thinly coriaceous. Flowers and inflorescences unknown. Infructescence axillary, subterminal or arising from the axils of fallen leaves, cymose, c. 4 cm long, at first minutely puberulous, peduncles slender, 5—10 mm, terminating in a depressed-subglobose carpophore 6-7 mm ø bearing around its margin c. 6 drupes or their scars. Drupes red, ± broadly ellipsoidal, drying deeply wrinkled, c. 2 cm long, glabrous, exocarp thinly coriaceous, mesocarp drying very thin, endocarp chartaceous; embryo reniform, 9-10 mm long, cotyledons very thick, slightly curved.
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