Slender woody climber. Stems up to 1 cm ø; young stems 2-3 mm ø drying striate, puberulous or glabrous; older stems covered with raised corky lenticels. Leaves: petioles 2-9 cm, puberulous (sometimes hispidulous) or glabrous, geniculate and slightly swollen at base; lamina narrowly ovate to ovate (or broadly ovate) or triangular, base truncate to deeply cordate or hastate with acute basal lobes, apex acuminate, 7-22 by 3-16.5 cm, palmately 5-7-nerved at base, main nerves usually impressed on upper surface and prominent below, both surfaces glabrous or sometimes puberulous (or hispidulous) along nerves especially below, both surfaces drying matt and minutely wrinkled, texture stiffly papyraceous, domatia absent. Male inflorescences axillary or arising from older leafless stems, pseudo-racemose (or narrowly 'paniculate'), solitary or several arising together, 5-16 cm long, very slender, puberulous, mostly without flowers in lower half. Male flowers on pedicels 1-5 mm; sepals pale green, very thin, glabrous or sparsely puberulous, (sometimes with 1-2 additional outermost oblong sepals 0.5 mm long), outer 3 ± ovate, 0.5-1.5 mm long, inner 3 obovate to spathulate, 1.5-2.5 mm long; petals 6, unguiculate with subreniform limb, 1.5 mm long, apically fleshy; stamens 6, narrowly clavate, 2 mm long. Female flowers and inflorescences unknown. Infructescences narrowly pseudo-paniculate, up to 40 cm, pendent with long slender peduncle up to 23 cm, pu-berulous. Drupes pinkish white or white, radiating from a subglobose carpophore 1-2 mm ø on a Peduncle 4-6 mm; pericarp glabrous, drying close to endocarp, the endocarp thinly crustaceous, usually pale, broadly elliptic in outline, 7-8 mm long, dorsally with an obscure medium ridge, surface smooth or obscurely tuberculate, ventrally flattish with ellip-tic aperture leading to deeply intrusive condyle.
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