Woody climber. Stems puberulous, sometimes soon glabrescent, drying striate and developing a subnitidous bark with scattered small lenticels. Leaves: petioles 8-10 cm, puberulous; lamina ovate to broadly ovate, base cordate, apex long-acuminate, 14-18 by 8.5-12 cm, main nerves impressed above, prominent below, reticulation very fine and prominent on both surfaces, upper surface glabrous, on lower surface main nerves hispidulous with some hairs uncinate at the tip, puberulous along finer nerves, papyraceous, domatia absent. Male flowers and inflorescences unknown. Female flowers unknown. Infructescence arising from older leafless stems, narrowly paniculate, 18-25 cm, puberulous, lateral branches c. 1 — 1.5 cm, upper branches reduced to single pedicel 0.5 cm. Drupes white, borne on a subglobose carpophore 2 mm ø; endocarp cream-whitish, crustaceous, subrotund or broadly elliptic in outline, slightly keeled at the apical end, 8-11 by 8 mm, the surface covered with moderately scattered very small pointed tubercles, ventrally flattish with elliptic aperture leading to a globose condyle deeply intrusive in the seed-cavity.
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