Woody
liana with anomalous secondary growth; shoots dimorphic, short
with short internodes and crowded distichous leaves or elongate
with long internodes and spirally (?) arranged leaves; leaves
alternate, elliptic, base rounded, margin entire, apex rounded;
flowers somewhat papilionoid, but with dimorphic sepals and crowded
petals (one of them crest-like) covering the stamens and pistil.
