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Flowers (4)5-merous in pyramidal panicles, sometimes with reduced leaves on rhachis, terminal but occasionally with an additional pair of panicles at first node; lateral inflorescence branches in 3–7 pairs, 0.5–5 cm long, tomentose; secondary inflorescence branches 0.3–1.5 cm long; short tertiary inflorescence branches sometimes present; pedicels absent; bracteoles on rhachis 5–8 mm long, usually with 2 lateral lobes, bracteoles on inflorescence head subulate or linear 2–3 mm long somewhat longer than calyx.
Corolla covered with spreading hairs outside; tube 3.5–4.75 mm long; lobes 1.75–2.75 × 1–1.75 mm, oblong-ovate, obtuse to rounded.
Climber, up to 12 m tall; young stems densely rusty-red tomentose; older stems with bark brown, eventually flaking off.
Fruit 6–7 mm in diameter, glabrous to glabrescent, orange to red, often with whitish incrustations.
Calyx densely tomentose; tube 0.5–0.75 mm long; limb 0.75–1 mm long, divided into ovate lobes.
Pollen presenter 1.25–1.5 mm long, fusiform, well exserted.
Seed c. 5 mm in diameter, very finely reticulate, blackish.
Style pubescent.
