Woody climber, entirely glabrous. Leaves with glabrous petioles (4-)7-10 cm inserted 2.5-6 cm from the basal margin; lamina triangular-orbicular to orbicular, apex rounded to very broadly obtuse, mucronate, 9-19 by 9-19 cm, reticulation lax, raised on both surfaces, glaucous below, margin slightly crenate-undulate, papyraceous. Male inflorescences axillary or arising from leafless stems, slender, lax, c. 20-23 cm long, composed of a ra-ceme of umbelliform cymes 4-9 cm long on Peduncles 3-4 cm. Male flowers on pedicels 1-2.5 mm; sepals 6, ± equal, oblanceolate to obovate, 2 mm long, membranous; petals 3, broadly obdeltoid, 0.5-0.75 mm long, fleshy; synandrium 1 mm long. Female inflorescences and flowers not seen (ac-cording to DIELS: long-pedunculate, 40-45 cm long). Infructescences 12(-?) cm long. Drupe red, on pedicels 2-4 mm, obovate, pointed at style-scar which projects below the base, 8-9 by 7 mm. Endocarp perforate with 2 dorsal median rows of c. 12 erect teeth with an equal number of short laterally directed projections on both sides, the whole dorsal surface papillose-rugulose.
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