Shrub, often twining (to the left), (1-)3-4(-8) m. Branchlets downy puberulous, glabrescent. Leaves firmly herbaceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic to oblong, glabrous, c. (1.4-)2 times as long as broad, mostly obovate, (8-)10-16(-20) by 4-7(-9) cm, base more or less narrowed and acute, top rounded and abruptly acuminate with triangular, short, blunt tip; midrib above flat to finely sulcate, below mostly densely set with pustules; nerves 6-7(-8) pairs, reticulations prominent; petiole (1-)1.5-2(-2.5) cm. Inflorescence a terminal, slender, leafy, many-flowered panicle 15-20 cm long, densely downy-puberulous. Bracts linear, c. 3 mm. Pedicels 2-3(-5) mm. Buds obovoid, 2.5-3 mm long. Flowers fragrant. Torus c. 1.25 mm wide. Sepals reflexed, strap-shaped, somewhat obovate, acute, inside pink, 3-4(-4.5) by ¾-1.25(-1.5) mm. Androgynophore hardly visible, glabrous. Stamens (20-)25-40; filaments 1.5-3.5 mm; anthers elliptic, c. ¾ mm long. Gynophore 0.75-1.25 mm long; ovary ellipsoid to ovoid, c. 1-1.25 by 1mm, both glabrous; style 1-1.5 mm, slender, glabrous, after anthesis somewhat recurved, stigmas obscure. Fruit on a woody stalk, 5-7 by 4-5 mm, ellipsoid c. 3-4 by 2-3 cm; pericarp leathery, thin, mostly smooth but sometimes spotted with whitish, crustlike fragments. Seeds c. 2.5 by 1.5 cm, embedded in pulp c. 3 mm thick.
Dry sunny places, young secondary forest, landslides, jungles, 100-1100 m. Fl. fr. Jan.-Dec.
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