Climbing shrubs, ca. 5 m tall; branchlets terete, slightly compressed when young, brown-gray, sparsely lenticellate. Petiole ca. 1 cm, thick, rugose, canaliculate; leaf blade ovate to oblong, 10-15 × 5-7 cm, abaxially glaucous, light brown-gray, adaxially yellow-green when dry, shiny, margin entire; lateral veins 8-10 pairs, abaxially prominent. Cymes axillary; peduncle ca. 1 cm; pedicel slender, 2-5 mm. Flowers green; sepals ellip tic, 1-1.5 × ca. 1 mm, margin lacerate; petals broadly elliptic, 1.5-2 × 1-1.5 mm, verrucose, margin membranous, apex mucronate. Disk cupular. Stamens 3; filaments flat; anthers forked. Ovary concealed in disk; ovules 2 per locule; style short. Fruit not seen. Fl. unknown.
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