Large rambling shrub or liana. Stipules triangular, c. 0.5 mm long, with colleters inside. Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic-or ovate-oblong, sometimes broad-elliptic, 3.5-11(-27) by 1.75-8(-12) cm; base cuneate; apex short-acuminate; margin ± entire, sometimes obscurely repand with sparse, callose-tipped obsolete crena-tions; nerves (2-)6-8 pairs; petiole 6-14 mm. Inflorescences axillary, cymose, dichotomously 3-branched, 2-4 cm long. Peduncle 1-2½ cm. Bracts deltoid or triangular, 0.5-1 mm long. Pedicels 4-11 mm, with elastic threads shown on breaking. Flower-buds broad-ovoid, or rarely subglobose, (2.5-)3-4 by 2.5-3 mm, acuminate or rarely obtuse. Flowers green. Calyx calyptriform, transversely splitting near the base, sometimes longitudinally splitting. Petals (4-)5(-6), ovate, 3-4 by 1.75-2.75 mm, ± entire. Disk annular-pulvinate, 1-1¼ mm high, 2-2.5 mm ø, slightly 5-angular at the base. Stamens 3, c. 1-1½ mm; anthers obscurely apiculate, slightly obliquely dehiscent. Pistil c. 1 mm emerging from the disk. Ovary 3-celled. Ovules 2 in each cell. Immature fruit globose.
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