Large liana, up to 30 m or more; stem to arm-thick. Leaves 3-4-jugate; leaflets elliptic, herbaceous, base ± rounded, apex short-acute, with some teeth towards the apex, c. 3½-7 by 1½-3 cm; veins between the nerves usually distinct; lower lateral petiolules 0-3 mm. Racemes on the old wood, 2-6 cm long, densely rich-flowered. Pedicels c. 1 cm. Calyx pale green, 1½-2 cm long, the lobes deltoid, 7 by 5 mm. Corolla whitish, later tinged pink, 5-6 cm long including lobes, lobes wide and short, c. 2-5 by 10-15 mm, with dark spots in transparent view; tube near the insertions of the stamens with very few hairs and no capitate-glandular papillae. Stamens as long as the style, ± exserted.
Primary and secondary forest, in Biak on coralline limestone, in the Moluccas at 500-600 m. Fl. Sept.-Nov., April.
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