Slender woody climber, entirely glabrous. Leaves: petioles 2.5-4 cm, inserted 3-7 mm from the basal margin: lamina broadly triangular-ovate, 5-6.5 cm long and broad, apex shortly acuminate, acumen obtusely mucronulate, base truncate or slightly cordate; reticulation close and raised, especially beneath; stiffly papyraceous. Male inflorescences and flowers unknown. Female inflorescence borne on older, leafless stem, composed of several, peduncled, disciform capitula, arising in the axils of subulate bracts 1-2 mm long, along an axis about 5 cm long; capitula c. 7 mm Ø on peduncles c. 5 cm. Female flowers very densely crowded on a disciform receptacle; sepals and petals ± obovate, c. 0.5-0.75 mm long; carpel ellipsoidal c. 0.75 mm. Fruits unknown.
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