Leaf-lamina 7–18 x 8–13 cm., elliptic, ovate-elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, rounded to subcordate at the base, obtuse to shortly cuspidate or long-acuminate at the apex, rigid to subcoriaceous, glabrescent above, rusty-tomentose to puberulous on the nerves beneath, nerves in 3–6 pairs, petiole 2–10 cm. long.
Male flowers with greyish-tomentellous pedicels 4–5 mm. long and furnished with 3 bracteoles; sepals 12–18, the 9–12 outer 1–1 x 1.5–3.5 mm., the 3–6 inner 5–7 x 3–4 mm.; petals 0–5–1 mm. long; stamens 6, 3–5 mm. long.
Male inflorescences axillary or springing from the old stems, of pedunculate cymules arranged in corymb-like clusters; peduncles 0.5–1 cm. long, greyish-tomentellous.
Female inflorescences similar to the male; peduncles of the cymules up to 2 cm. long and becoming robust in fruit.
Drupelets up to 3 x 1.7 cm., truncate at the base.
Female flowers with 20–25 carpels c. 2 mm. long.
Liane with young branchlets rusty-tomentellous.
Seeds 2–2.5 cm. long.