A woody slender-stemmed climber; younger stems and inflorescences appressed yellowish-sericeous, older ones glabrescent and lenticellate.. Leaf-lamina ovate-oblong or lanceolate, 5.5–12 × 1.5–4 cm., acuminate, base rounded or sometimes slightly cordate, chartaceous, hirsute on both surfaces, more densely so beneath; petiole 4–12 mm. long, canaliculate, hirsute; stipules very small, deciduous.. Flowers in terminal and axillary many-flowered corymbs, zygomorphic, ± 1 cm. in diameter; bracts lanceolate, up to 2 mm. long; bracteoles filiform, ± 1 mm. long.. Sepals ovate-oblong, 1–1.3 mm. long, glabrous.. Petals (? white), oblong-ovate, ± 9 mm. long and 4 mm. broad, subhastate, entire or irregularly dentate at margins, shortly clawed.. Stamens with anthers ± 1.5 mm. long; filaments filiform, ± 2 mm. long.. Ovary glabrous; styles ± 4 mm. long, glabrous.. Samara unknown.
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