Lauigang (Tag.)

A dioecious vine Height: 1.5 to 3 millimeters in diameter Leaves: Leaves are membranous to chartaceoous, ovate, ovate-lanceolate, elliptic-oblong or rounded-elliptic, 4 to 14 centimeters long, 1.5 to 6.7 centimeters wide, usually 5-plinerved, rarely 3-plinerved or 7-plinerved. Flowers: Pistillate spikes are abbreviated, oblong to globose-ovoid, 7 to 20 millimeters long, 7.5 to 11 millimeters in diameter, with the smooth peduncles 0.8 to 2 centimeters long. Rachis is hirsute. Bracts are sessile, peltate, with the disc smooth, transversely subelliptic to obovate, 0.5 to 0.8 millimeters wide. Fruits: Fruits are crowded, coalescing fully embedded in and concrescent with the rachis, oblanceolate to obovoid, about 3 millimeters long, angled, smooth and umbonate apex.