Scandent herb, stems glabrescent, the nodes distant. Leaves moderate-sized, 5-8 cm long, margins repand with 1-2 small teeth just below the middle, young leaves copiously pubescent, older leaves with sparse scattered hairs above; petioles winged about /2 as long as the leaves. Inflorescence umbellate, appressed-puberu-lent with ascending hairs, the peduncle straight and very slender, 2-3 cm long; pedicels flexuous, slender but slightly expanding over the whole length, 12-18 mm long. Flowers white, calyx 3 mm long and 3 mm across the top, obconical, with short, deltoid teeth and curved sinuses which do not split in flower or fruit; corolla 10 mm long, lobed more than halfway; anthers ca. 3 mm long; the style filiform, curved in the upper 1/3, slightly exserted. Fruit ca. 6 mm across, the calyx slightly accrescent, mostly neither applied nor reflexed but almost porrect around the fruit; seeds ca. 1.3 mm across. Chromosome number n = 36.
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