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*Dioecious liana or scandent shrub, with rhizome; leafy stems slender, glabrous to densely hairy. *Leaves arranged spirally, simple; stipules absent; petiole 4–7 cm long, short-hairy; blade broadly ovate, 2–12 cm × 4.5–12 cm, base rounded or truncate to deeply cordate, apex obtuse or notched, with mucro, entire or slightly wavy, membranous to papery, hairy below, sparsely hairy above, palmately 3–7-veined. *Inflorescence an axillary, umbel-like cyme, solitary or clustered; male inflorescence up to 4 cm long, 1–3 together, female inflorescence arranged in a false raceme 5–10 cm long; bracts up to 1.5 cm in diameter, almost round to kidney-shaped, hairy. *Flowers unisexual; pedicel up to 2 mm long; male flowers with 4(–5) sepals, ovate to obovate, c. 1.5 mm × c. 0.5 mm, keeled, hairy outside, greenish or yellowish, corolla cup-shaped, c. 1 mm long, filaments of stamens completely fused; female flowers with 1 sepal c. 1.5 mm long, 1 obtriangular to kidney-shaped petal c. 1.5 mm × 2 mm, ovary superior, hairy, 1-celled, style thick with spreading, 3-lobed stigma. *Fruit a short-hairy, orange to red drupe c. 5 mm long, curved with style-scar near base; stone with 2 rows of very prominent transverse ridges, 1-seeded. *Seed horseshoe-shaped; embryo elongate, narrow, embedded in endosperm, cotyledons flattened.