Scandent shrub, entirely glabrous. Stems striate with pustular lenticels, later covered with a smooth pergamentaceous bark. Leaves: petioles (2—)5—10 (-16) cm; lamina broadly ovate to ovate (or ellipticovate), base cordate to truncate (or rounded), apex acuminate, 6—13(—21) by (3.5—)6—10(—17) cm, surface drying matt with reticulation rather obscure, papillose patches sometimes present in basal nerve-axils beneath, very thinly to stiffly papyraceous. Male inflorescences: a few arising together from the older, leafless stems, unbranched, very slender, sometimes slightly zigzag, 7-20 cm long; flowers in spaced fascicles (sometimes retrorse) of c. 3 flowers; each fascicle subtended by a retrorse bract 0.5-1 mm long. Male flowers: minute, subsessile (pedicels up to 0.5 mm); outer 3 sepals triangular-ovate, 0.8 mm long, inner 3 sepals broadly elliptic, concave, 1.5-2 mm long; petals 6, oblong with lateral edges incurved, 1 mm long; stamens 6, 0.8 mm long. Female inflorescences and flowers unknown. Infructescences rather slender and unbranched, 19-27 cm long, bearing very prominent discoid scars. Drupes 3 on stout peduncles 1-2 cm, orange-yellow, ellipsoidal, 3.5-4.5 by 1.5-2 cm, style subterminal; pericarp (dried) very thin; endocarp thinly bony, mostly less than 1 mm thick, papillose-tuberculate or almost smooth with a dorsal carina more pronounced towards the apex, and with an elongate ventral groove which only slightly intrudes into the large seedcavity. Seed ellipsoidal, ventrally grooved, containing copious, ventrally ruminate endosperm; embryo with divergent, thin, foliaceous cotyledons with finely lobed margins, radicle cylindrical, superior.
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