Liana or shrub, glabrous throughout. Petiole 8-25 mm long; blades subcoriaceous to coriaceous, narrowly ovate, 9-20 x 4-8 cm, margins entire, apex abruptly obtusely acuminate or rounded, base rounded, sometimes slightly cordate, or cuneate, often somewhat falcate; primary vein impressed or flat above, prominent beneath, secondary veins 7-11 per side, widely arcuately ascending, impressed or flat, tertiary veins impressed or inconspicuous on both surfaces. Inflorescences axillary, fasciculate; pedicels slender, 4-15 mm long. Flowers 10-22 mm diam.; sepals unequal, 1-2.2 x 1-1.5 mm, rounded; petals slightly fleshy to chartaceous, yellowish green, pale brown or orange, often brown at base and green at apex, elliptic, 5.5-10 x 5-8 mm, lineolate; disk truncate, 3.5-5.5 mm diam., 1 mm high, generally strongly flattened at base; stamens spreading, filaments 1.5-2.3 mm long, anthers ca. 0.9 mm long and wide, dehiscing by oblique, apically confluent clefts; ovary depressed-conical, ovules 4 per locule in superposed pairs, style thick, to 1 mm long. Fruiting pedicel up to 3 cm long and 8 mm diam. Fruit globose, 3-4 cm diam., pericarp coriaceous, smooth or somewhat rugulose, greyish-glaucous, dull orange when mature.
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