Liana. Branchlets usually whitish. Stipules triangular or reniform, 1/3-0.75 mm long, laciniate or short fimbriate. Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, rather shining above, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, 5-9 by 2½-4 cm; base acute to attenuate; apex acuminate; margin entire or sub-entire; nerves 5-8 pairs; petiole ⅓-0.75 cm. Bracts triangular, 0.5-0.75 mm long, short-fimbriate. Pedicels 2½-3 mm. Flowers yellow, axillary, fascicled. Calyx lobes deltoid, c. Y% mm long, fleshy, glandular on the margin. Petals ovate-oblong, 1½-2 by 0.75-1 mm, slightly keeled outside, obtuse or acute, rarely slightly erose. jDisk round, short-cylindric, c. 0.5-0.75 mm high, 0.75-1 mm ø, with a narrow rim at the base, truncate or slightly concave at the apex. Stamens 3, c. ⅓ mm; anthers transversely dehiscent. Pistil c. 0.5 mm emerging from the disk. Ovary 3-celled. Ovules 2(-3) in each cell, inserted at the middle of the axis. Fruits broad-obovoid, c. 4⅓ by 3⅓ cm, ± stalk-like, contracted at the base, rugose.
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