Liana. Branches light greyish, terete sometimes 4-angular. Stipules triangular, c. 0.5 mm long, laciniate. Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, usually the old leaves with elastic threads shown on breaking, elliptic-oblong,-lanceolate, and lanceolate, rarely obovate-oblong, 6.5-18.5 by 2.25-8 cm; base cuneate to attenuate, sometimes obtuse; apex acuminate to cuspidate; margin subentire, or remotely, slightly crenulate; nerves 6-8 pairs; petiole 0.25-1.5 cm. Bracts fleshy, deltoid, or ovate, c. 1 mm long, short-fimbriate. Pedicels 2-3 mm. Flowers greenish, or dull yellow, in fascicles on short, axillary, bracteate tubercles. Calyx lobes fleshy, deltoid, 1/2-⅔ mm long, erect, obtuse and entire. Petals slightly spreading at anthesis, fleshy, thinner near the margin, slightly varying in size, oblong, 2⅓-2.75 by 0.75-1.25 mm, entire, obtuse, slightly keeled, sometimes slightly triangular in cross-section, the overlapping margins pressed on the ones below, or fitting in a shallow groove on the dorsal surface of the ones below. Disk broad-oblong, 1-1.25 mm high, 0.75-1 mm ø, obtuse at the apex, the base slightly extended outward and forming a narrow rim. Stamens 3, c. 0.5 mm; anthers slightly obliquely dehiscing. Pistil c. 1/3 mm emerging from the disk. Ovary 3-celled. Ovules 2 in each cell, attached at the central part of the axis. Fruit globose or subglobose, 2.75-3.5 cm ø, rugose outside. Seeds subglobose, 1½-2 cm ø, densely covered with pulp.
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