Dioecious, slender and sapling-like to c. 4 m then becoming a vine to the canopy; stem diameter to 30 mm; bark reddish-brown with numerous circular or horizontal lenticels; some branches back-arching; twigs lenticellate, sparsely sericeous on new growth becoming glabrous; indumentum white; stipules caducous, triangular, sericeous, c. 3 mm long; petioles thickened, arched and sub-peltate (not always distinct on dried specimens), 3–7 mm long not including taper; taper along midrib extending for 2–3 mm and acuminate at junction with primary vein, wrinkled, sparsely sericeous becoming glabrous, dark brown. Leaves elliptic, obovate or rarely lanceolate, 40–170 mm long and 15–66 mm wide, coriaceous; new growth sericeous; abaxial surface glossy, with sparse appressed hairs at base and along midrib becoming sparser, glands 0–6 (rarely 8) near base and sometimes a few scattered in mid to distal sections; adaxially sparsely sericeous on midrib and a few solitary white hairs along margin especially at indentations, becoming glabrous, glands scattered; coriaceous; discolorous; base often slightly asymmetrical, attenuate or rarely cuneate; apex shortly acuminate and the ultimate tip narrowly rounded, caudate or acute; margin shallowly repand; venation camptodromous proximally and brochidodromous distally; primary vein distinctly raised on both surfaces or flush and raised within a groove; secondary veins 4–8 pairs, proximal veins at c. 40º to the midrib and distal veins at 10–30º to the midrib, slightly raised on both surfaces; tertiary venation reticulate, densely pitted within each reticulation on abaxial surface. Gynoecious inflorescence an axillary raceme or shortly peduncled fascicle, 1–3 (4)-flowered; bracts at base of peduncle ovate, c. 0.3 mm long, sparsely sericeous; peduncles 3.5–6 mm long, sparsely sericeous; pedicels articulate, 0.6–0.8 mm long, thinly pilose; bracts 1 or 2 along pedicel, triangular, c. 1 mm long, sericeous; flower fragrance not detected, diameter c. 3.5 mm, c. 3 mm long; calyx tubular at base, c. 3.2 mm long; sepals 5, ovate, c. 1.8 mm long; abaxially sparsely sericeous, outer pair more densely pubescent especially along margins, adaxially pubescent, orange; petals 5, ovate, slightly longer than sepals, c. 2 mm long, glabrous or a few sparse hairs abaxially, adaxially glabrous or with 1 or a few hairs, white or lemon, apex emarginate to c. 0.25 mm; stamens 5; filaments narrowly triangular, c. 1 mm long; anthers introrse; staminodes 5, bilobed-globose, c. 0.25 long and 0.5 wide, glabrous, orange; ovary ovoid, 2- or 3-locular, c. 1 x 1 mm, pubescent; stigma sessile, 3-lobed, diameter c. 0.3 mm. Staminate inflorescence axillary or ramiflorous, 6–10-flowered, repeatedly dichotomously branched cyme, often in pairs; bracts clustered at base, ovate, c. 1 mm long, sparsely sericeous; peduncle 3.5–7 mm long, sparsely sericeous; pedicel 0.8–1.5 mm long, sparsely sericeous, bracts absent; flower fragrance not detected, diameter c. 2.5 mm and c. 2.5 mm long; calyx tubular at base; sepals 5, ovate, 1–1.25 mm long, abaxially sparsely sericeous through mid-section and tomentose near margins, adaxially tomentose, orange at base and lemon towards apex; petals 5, obovate or elliptical, cucullate, minutely emarginate, c. 1 mm long and 0.5 mm wide, glabrous or with a few crisped hairs on lower abaxial surface, lemon or whitish; stamens 5, filaments slender-triangular with a few pale hairs below the centre, c. 1.5 mm long, anthers introrse; staminodes 5, laterally compressed and oblate, glabrous; pistillode pubescent. Fruit pedicel 1–2 mm long, sparsely sericeous; capsule 1–3-lobed, oblate, 7–20 x 10–24 mm, surface slightly dimpled with a few sparse appressed white hairs visible with a lens mostly towards base, orange; seeds 1–3, reniform, straw-coloured, c. 12 mm long and 7 mm wide, with red arils completely enclosing the seeds. Fig. 1 & 3