Woody vines, monoecious. Leaves coriaceous, 5-20 jam thick; lamina elliptic to ovate, 6-11.5 by 2-4.5(-5) cm, length: width ratio (2.0-)2.3-3.2(-3.5); primary vein plane to slightly impressed above, prominent to very prominent below; secondary veins (4-)5-6(-7) pairs, ± straight; base obtuse to truncate (acute in younger leaves), often short-decurrent; apex acute to acuminate; margin entire to denticulate, 0-8 teeth; petiole (8—)10—17(—21) mm long, (0.8-)1.0-1.5(-1.8) mm diameter. Flowers borne axillary to leaves on young growth, solitary; pedicel (2-)3-5(-12) mm long, 0.6-1.1 mm in diameter. Perianth segments 9-14, outer segments (green-)yellow, inner red; outermost perianth part ovate, 1.0-2.4 by 1.1-2.4 mm, length: width ratio 0.7-1.0(-l.5); innermost perianth part elliptic to ovate, (2.3-)3.5-4.0(-5.3) by 1.9-3.5 mm, length: width ratio 1.2-1.8; largest perianth part ovate, 4.3-7.8 by 4.1-6.0(-7.0) mm, length: width ratio 0.9-1.3; outermost perianth part highly reduced to 0.2-0.4 of length of largest; innermost perianth part reduced to 0.5-0.8 of length of largest. Male flowers with 10-13(—17) stamens, fused into carnose mass 2.8-3.9 mm diameter, with anthers borne in cavities; pollen hexacolpate. Female flowers with 18-37 free carpels, gynoecium 2.8-3.8 mm diameter; ovaries 1.2-1.5 by 0.7-0.8 mm, length: width ratio 1.7-2.0; pseudostyle flat-subulate, without pseudostigma. Fruit pedicel short, 3-8 mm long; torus 30-50 mm long; berries 15-20 (possibly more), 6.7-8.5 by 6.6-8.2 mm, length: width ratio 0.9-1.2, berries borne on short stipes. Seeds (1 or) 2 per berry, ± discoid. Fig. 2.
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