Woody climber c. 6-8 m high, entirely glabrous. Leaves with petioles 3-5 cm; lamina ovate or trian-gular-ovate, 6-13 by 4.5-8 cm, apex shortly obtuse or gradually narrowed to an obtuse tip, reticulation lax on both surfaces, papyraceous. Male inflorescences on leafless woody stems, composed of umbel-liform cymes 2-5 cm long with primary rays less than 1 cm and peduncle 1-4 cm arising from a slen-der axis 10-20 cm long. Male flowers on filiform pedicels c. 2 mm; sepals 6, broadly oblanceolate or spathulate, 1.5-2 mm long; petals 3, obdeltoid, 0.75 mm long, fleshy; synandrium 1 mm long. Female flowers unknown. Infructescences slender, c. 7-13 cm long. Drupe usually pedicellate up to 2 mm or ses-sile, orbicular-obovate in outline, 5 mm long. Endocarp imperforate with 4 dorsal series of 10-13 papil-liform processes.
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