Climber, 4-6 m long, clinging to tree trunk with adhesive pads on the tips of short tendrils, plant green-white harshly hairy, hairs 1-2 mm long, leafy stem 2-4 mm diam.; dioecious. Probract absent. Tendrils hairy, 5-or 6-branched. Leaves: petiole c. 0.5 cm long; blade green on drying, coriaceous, simple, shallowly or deeply 3(-5)-lobed, in outline broadly ovate or circular, 4-12 by 4-8 cm, scabrous, coarsely rough hairy, hairs c. 2 mm long, with glands scattered above and beneath, c. 0.5 mm diam., cystoliths absent, margin coarsely lobulate-dentate to c. 1 cm deep, apex acuminate-mucronate, 2-4 mm long mucronate; veins distinctly raised beneath. Male raceme erect; peduncle 1.5-2 cm long, 1-1.5 mm thick; rachis not thickened, 4-8 cm long, 8-10(-15)-flowered; bracts to 2 mm shifted upwards on the pedicel, caducous, (narrowly) elliptic, 1-2 mm long, entire, glands absent. Male flowers: pedicel 10-12 mm long, persistent, thickened and somewhat longer, c. 15 mm, when perianth is shed; receptacle-tube c. 30 mm long, faintly curved, slightly constricted in the middle, at throat c. 8 mm wide; sepals linear, ± recurved, c. 5 mm long, margin entire; petals ± elliptic, c. 15 mm long, threads 10(-15) mm long; synandrium c. 4 by 3 mm, anthers connivent (not fused), filaments free, slender, glabrous, c. 4 mm long; disc consisting of 3 firm-carnose elements, c. 15 by 2.5 mm, partly connate with the tube. Female flowers and fruit not known.
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