Woody climber, entirely glabrous. Stems drying striate when young, with scattered raised lenticels, developing a papery later subcoriaceous bark. Leaves: petioles 4-5 cm; lamina elliptic, base rounded or subtruncate, apex long-acuminate, 10-13 by 4-6 cm, 3(-5)-nerved at the base and with 4-6 pairs of distal lateral nerves, reticulation raised on both surfaces, stiffly papyraceous, domatia with distinct apertures present beneath in the main nerve-axils. Flowers unknown. Infructescence arising from older, leafless region of stem, 25 to over 60 cm, subracemose with one or two pedicels 7-10 mm arising together in the axil of a 1-2 mm long bract, sometimes short lateral branches 2-4 cm long present towards the base. Drupes 10 mm long, drying irregularly very wrinkled and angled borne on columnar carpophores 3-4 mm long; endocarp ± broadly elliptic in outline, abruptly pointed at base and apex, 9 by 6 mm, surface granular with irregular scattered point-ed protuberances, ventrally flattish with a central elliptic aperture.
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