Scandent shrub. Young branchlets slightly angular. Stipules triangular, 1/3-0.5 mm long. Leaves chartaceous, elliptic-oblong and lanceolate; 10-21 by 4-6.75 cm; base cuneate, obtuse or rounded; apex acuminate to acuminate-caudate; margin distinctly or rarely obscurely apiculate-crenulate; nerves 6-8 pairs; petiole 3-8 mm. Bracts triangular, c. 0.75 mm long, slightly short-fimbriate. Pedicels 1-3 mm. Flowers greenish yellow, in axillary fascicles on a very short brac-teolate brachyblast. Calyx lobes triangular or deltoid, c. 0.5 mm long, slightly erose at the margin. Petals rather fleshy, oblong, 1.5-2 by ⅓-1 mm, rounded. Disk short cylindric, c. 1 mm high, c. ⅔ mm ø. Stamens 3, ⅓-1 mm; anthers transversely or sometimes slightly obliquely dehiscent. Pistil c. ⅓ mm emerging from the disk. Ovary 3-celled. Ovules 2 in each cell, attached at the central part of the axis. Fruit (broken) subglobose, c. 2.75 cm ø, smooth.
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