Semi-scandent shrubs. Stems glabrous, prickles rather few, curved, up to 5 mm. Leaves 3-foliolate, upper ones simple and lobed, petiole 1.5-4 cm long. Stipules deeply 3-to 8-laciniate, lobes up to 12 mm long and up to 0.5 mm wide, glabrous. Leaflets elliptic, terminal ones 8-10 by 4-5 cm, lateral ones 6-8 by 2.5-4 cm, base acute, margin serrate, apex acuminate, herbaceous, 8-12 pairs of nerves, only short hairs on midrib above, otherwise glabrous. Inflorescence lax, up to 6 dichasia of up to 3 (-6) flowers below the terminal flower. Bracts entire or like the stipules. Pedicels up to 6 cm long. Hypanthium c. 7 mm across (in fruit), glabrous and unarmed outside. Sepals triangular to triangular-ovate, 9-17 by 5-8 mm, entire, pointed, glabrous outside but woolly on the covered margins. Petals not seen. Stamens c. 50, filaments up to 7 mm, anthers c. 1 mm long. Pistils c. 35, ovaries glabrous, on elevated, densely long-hairy torus, styles up to 5 mm long. Collective fruits ± ovoid, c. 1.5 cm, sepals spreading. Fruits up to 4 by 2.5 mm, red, mesocarp a thin membranous layer when dry.
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