Tall climber, with sparse minute grey hairs, early glabrescent, leafy stem 3-4 mm diam.; dioecious. Probract ovate or elliptic, 3-4 by c. 2 mm, without glands. Tendrils 2-or 3-branched. Leaves: petiole 2-4 cm long; blade greenish brown on drying, chartaceous, simple, unlobed, in outline broadly ovate, 8-15 by 8-12 cm, glands several to many, at the blade base or scattered, 0.5 mm diam., cystoliths occasionally on old stem, petiole and veins, margin entire or sparsely minutely dentate; veins 5(-7), arching. Male raceme and male flowers not known. Female flowers (from bud): sparsely brown hairy; pedicel c. 15 mm long; ovary narrowly ellipsoid, with c. 10 ribs; sepals linear, c. 12 mm long, 0.5 mm wide at base, margin entire; mature petals not seen (see note). Fruit ripening red, ellipsoid or (sub)globose, 10-12 by 5.5-7 cm, apex c. 2 mm beaked; exocarp woody, c. 1 mm thick, smooth with c. 10 shallow grooves; fruiting pedicel 2-2.5 cm long, c. 5 mm thick. Seeds brown, densely packed, compressed, ± narrowly elliptic, ± parallel-sided, 12-13 by 5 by 2 mm, base cuneate, apex ± notched, margin faint, edge (sub)entire.
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