Scandent shrub or liana. Stipules triangular or lanceolate, 0.25-1 mm long. Leaves subcoriaceous, ovate to ovate-oblong, elliptic or broad-elliptic, 6.5-15.5 by 3-9 cm; base cuneate, rarely obtuse; apex short-acuminate; margin entire; nerves 6-8 pairs, petiole 0.5-2 cm. Inflorescences axillary, cymose, 1.5-6.5 cm long, usually 2-4 times dichotomously branched, sometimes an axillary shoot with reduced leaves or bracts resembling a thyrsiform inflorescence. Peduncle 0.75-3 cm. Bracts triangular, c. 0.5 mm long, entire or slightly erose. Pedicels 0.5-1 cm. Flower-buds broad-ovoid or subglobose, 2-4.5 by 1½-2 mm, apiculate or sometimes obtuse. Flowers light green or yellowish green. Calyx calyptriform, narrowed towards the apex, transversely dehiscent near the base, rarely irregularly lengthwise splitting into 2 segments. Petals 5(-7), ovate or oblong, 2-4 by 1½-2.5 mm, entire or wavy. Disk annular-pulvinate, ⅔-1.75 mm high, 1 1/3-2 mm ø, slightly broader and 5-angular at the base, finely papillose. Stamens 2, very rarely associated with some flowers containing 3 stamens, 0.5-1 mm, short-apiculate, erect at anthesis, the connective usually separating the thecae; anthers dehiscing transversely or +-at the top. Pistil c. 2/3 emerging from the disk. Ovary 2-celled. Ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit globose, c. 2-2.75 cm ø, 1-seeded (always?). Seeds globose, 1.5-1.75 cm ø, rather smooth on the surface.
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