Liana. Branchlets usually angular. Stipules deltoid or triangular, c. 0.5 mm long. Leaves subcoriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, 3.5-17½ by 1-7 cm; base cuneate to attenuate; apex short-acuminate; margin crenulate, rarely subentire; nerves 6-9 pairs; petiole 3-8 mm. Inflorescences axillary, dichotomously cymose, 1½-3 cm long, the flowers usually crowded at the end of the first fork, sometimes an axillary flowering branch with reduced leaves or bracts resembling a thyrsiform inflorescence. Peduncle 0.5-1.5 cm. Bracts triangular, 0.5-1 mm long, erose, with colleters at the base inside. Pedicels 4-6 mm. Flower-buds subglobose, 1½-2 mm ø. Flowers green. Calyx calyptriform, pointed at the apex, splitting transversely near the base, rarely associated with some flowers in which the calyx is longitudinally dehiscent. Petals 5 (or 6), ovate, 2-4 by 1⅓-2½ mm. Disk annular-pulvinate, c. 0.75 mm high and 1.5 mm diam. Stamens 3, c. 0.75-1 mm; anthers obliquely dehiscent, obscurely apiculate. Pistil c. 0.75 mm emerging from the disk. Ovary 3-celled. Ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit globose, c. 2.5 cm ø, dark olive green. Seed 1, globose, c. 1½ cm ø.
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