Scrambler, wholly sparsely rusty hairy, hairs 0.5 mm long, leafy stem 4-5 mm diam.; dioecious(?). Probract absent (or inconspicuous?). Tendrils hairy, 2-branched. Leaves: petiole (3-)4-8 cm long; blade green on drying, membranous, simple, unlobed, in outline (narrowly) ovate or (faintly) hastate, c. 15 by 8-12 cm, scabrous, glands absent or few and minute beneath, cystoliths not obvious, base with at the transition to the petiole at each side a small shallowly bulging auricle, each with 1-3 crowded glands, margin irregularly shallowly lobulate-dentate or sinuate, apex acuminate-mucronate. Male raceme with a single flower, terminal of a short branch 1-1.5 cm long with a few scattered bracts, co-axillary with the initial of a lateral sterile shoot or possibly a male raceme; bracts 2-3 mm long, conspicuously densely harshly hairy, hairs c. 1 mm long, dark rusty-brown. Male flowers (from mature bud): pedicel c. 6 mm long; receptacle-tube long-cupshaped, narrowed in the lower half, c. 10 mm long, 8 mm wide at throat; sepals long-triangular, c. 8 mm long, 1 mm wide at base, margin entire; petals in bud folded into a conical body with free apices, at anthesis presumably c. 8 by 6 mm, threads c. 10 mm long; synandrium subtruncate at both ends, c. 4 by 3.5(-4) mm, consisting of 3 free anthers, tightly appressed, but not fused, filaments c. 1 mm long, slender, terete, inserted halfway the tube where passing into strongly brown hairy thickenings of the tube c. 2 mm long; disc absent. Female flowers and fruit not known.
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