Slender climber. Stem glabrous. Leaves with gla-brous petioles 3-6 cm; lamina triangular, narrowly triangular or subtriangular, (6-)9-14 by 5-9 cm; apex very acute, finely apiculate; base truncate to rounded, sometimes apiculate at the basal corners; reticulation lax, both surfaces glabrous, lower surface sometimes strigulose along the nerves; papyraceous. Male inflorescences arising from leafless parts of the stem, very lax and slender, glabrous or papillose, composed of umbelliform cymes 4-14 cm long with primary rays mostly more than 1 cm, Peduncles 3.5-8 cm, borne along a slender axis c. 40-50 cm. Male flowers white or cream on pedicels up to c. 3 mm; sepals 6, obovate, 1.5 mm long, glabrous; petals ?3, ± broadly obovate, 0.75 mm long, gla-brous. Female flowers unknown. Infructescence with peduncles of cymes 1-2 cm long. Drupes on pedicels 5-10 mm, rotund-obovate in outline, 5-6 by 4-5 mm. Endocarp ? perforate, dorsally bearing 4 longitudinal rows of 12-16 ± papilliform pro-cesses or short ridges.
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