Liana. Branchlets slightly whitish or light brown when dry. Stipules triangular, c. 1 mm long, slightly erose. Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, rather shining on both surfaces, elliptic-oblong to-lanceolate, 4.5-20 by 1.5-6 cm; base cuneate; apex acuminate, apiculate; margin entire or sometimes slightly crenulate; nerves 3-7 pairs; petiole 2-3 mm. Bracts triangular, c. 1 mm long, short-fimbriate at the margin. Pedicels 1½-4 mm, with elastic threads shown on breaking. Flowers axillary or ramiflorous, 1 or 2, sometimes several in fascicles, usually on short bracteate tubercles. Calyx lobes fleshy, semi-orbicular or +-reniform, 1-1.5 by 1½-3 mm, glanduliform or slightly erose, sometimes entire at the margin. Petals persistent, fleshy, elliptic, or oblong-elliptic, sometimes obovate-oblong, 4-5 by 2-3 mm, obtuse, entire or slightly erose. Disk fleshy, annular-pulvinate, slightly contracted at the base, 1.5-1.75 mm ø, 1⅓-1.75 mm high, sometimes slightly narrowed at the apex and base, rather smooth. Stamens 3, 1.5-1 mm long; anthers free at the lower 2/3, +-longitudinally dehiscent, short-apiculate. Pistil 1-1.5 mm emerging from the disk. Ovary 3-celled. Ovules 2(-3) in each cell, inserted at the central part of axis. Fruit subglobose, rusty green, c. 6.5 cm ø. Seeds planoconvex, c. 3 by 2 cm, densely covered with a layer (c. 3 mm thick) of pulp.
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