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Description:
Hermaphroditic, unarmed, glabrous, terrestrial, evergreen lianas. Stems well branched, leptocaulous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, the bases slightly clasping and ligulate; blades unifoliolate (to palmately bi- or trifoliolate); leaflets elliptical (to ovate), paperaceous to chartaceous, the margins entire and undulate, petiolulate. Inflorescences terminal on lateral shoots, erect, simple-umbellate; bracts very minute; pedicels long and slender, articulated. Calyx a low, crenate rim; petals 5, imbricate, free but long-connivent; stamens 5; carpels 2, ovaries inferior, styles fully connate, the disc flattened to depressed. Fruits drupes (but the mesocarp scarcely fleshy), glabrous, broadly obovate to broadly elliptical, strongly compressed laterally; endocarp crustaceous. Endosperm ruminate (with infolded margins).
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