Vine, branched, the branchlets terete, drying red, villose to hirsute, the nodes well spaced. Leaves elliptic, 5-13 cm long, 2.0-5.5 cm wide, apically deltoid, acuminate, the acumen vague or distinct, to 1 cm long, usually minutely apiculate, cuneate or acute at the base, the costa slender, prominulous, drying pink below, the lateral veins ca. 15, arcuate, somewhat whitish proximally beneath, papyra-ceous, concolorous, with scattered thin weak white appressed 1-2 mm hairs above and beneath, these more dense beneath especially along the costa; petioles slender, ca. 1 cm long; stipules ovate rotund, to 8 mm long, to 5.5 mm wide, acute, membranous, venose, pilose outside and at base within, with 6-10 subu-late, red glands at base within, these 0.1-0.2(-1.5) mm long. Inflorescences ax-illary, sessile, to 1 cm long, the flowers densely congested; bracts several per inflorescence, similar to stipules in texture and pubescence. Flowers sessile; hy-
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panthium short with densely appressed, elongate silky hairs outside; calycine cup short, appearing ringlike at the apex within (top view) because of the ovarian disc, the calycine lobes spreading in starlike fashion, oblong, foliose, 3-6 mm long, unequal, acute, villose outside, with a minute linear oblong gland between the lobes; corolla white, the tube ca. 4 mm long, carnose, drying red, villose in upper 2/3 outside, the lobes triangular, ca. 1 mm long, ovarian disc doughnut shaped, 0.3 mm long. Fruits sessile, rotund, ca. 3.5 mm in diam., ribbed, the ribs crassate, obtuse, villose above the middle, the raphides abundant.
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