| Description : | Climbers glabrous except for rachis and bases of bracts, dioecious. Stems drying blackish, 1-2 mm thick, finely striated when dry. Petiole sheathed at base only; leaf blade ovate or narrowly ovate to elliptic, papery, finely glandular, base oblique, apex acute to acuminate. Spikes leaf-opposed. in Male spikes peduncle; orbicular bracts, stalk present. Stamens 2; filaments very short to ± absent; anthers ovoid to globose. Female spikes 9-14 cm × ca. 3.5 mm at anthesis, 4-5 mm thick in fruit; peduncle nearly 2 × as long as petioles; rachis roughly pubescent; bracts orbicular, stalk to 1 mm, 0.8-1 mm in diam. Ovary globose, distinct. Drupe obovoid, 4-angled. Fl. Apr-Jun. |
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