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Information A scandent shrub or liane; leaves greyish beneath; flowers greenish-yellow; in montane forest.

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Information Climbing shrub or liane; branchlets with coiled tendrils; tendrils rusty-pubescent when young, glabrescent later. Leaf-lamina up to 8·5 × 7 cm., ovate, apex acute to mucronate, margin closely serrulate, base rounded to cordate, tomentellous to nearly glabrous above, persistently tomentose beneath, secondary nerves in 5–9 pairs impressed above and prominent below, tertiary venation prominent and regularly subparallel beneath; petiole tomentose, up to 2·5 cm. long; stipules up to 1 cm. long, subulate, tomentose, caducous. Inflorescence up to 50 cm. long, of elongated racemes up to 20 cm. long and composed of fascicles of up to 20 flowers; pedicels up to 5 mm. long, tomentellous; bracts up to 8 mm. long, triangular, tomentose. Receptacle tomentose. Sepals 1·5–2 mm. long, deltate, tomentose outside, glabrous within. Petals 1·5 mm. long, obovate, cucullate, shortly unguiculate. Stamens 1·5 mm. long. Disk 3 mm. in diam., lobed opposite the calyx-teeth. Ovary inferior: style 0–5 mm. long, 3-fid or very short and obscurely 3-lobed. Fruit 6 × 11 mm., 3-winged, pubescent, glabrescent with age; wings very loosely reticulate-veined. Seed 3 × 2 mm., plano-convex; testa shining brown.

Information Climbing or sprawling shrubs or lianes several m. long. Branchlets and tendrils with longitudinal pubescent stripes of antrorse brownish hairs 0.2–0.3 mm. long, glabrescent, very slightly zig-zag. Leaf-blades ovate, 4–8.5 cm. long, 2.5–4.5(–7) cm. wide, round at base, acute or acuminate (acumen 5–10 mm. long), serrulate or doubly serrulate, above dark and with sparse antrorse golden-brown hairs 0.2–0.4 mm. long, beneath with a dense persistent grey or brown tomentum, on each side of midrib with 6–7 secondary nerves; petioles 10–25 mm. long, ventrally pubescent. Stipules subulate, ± 3 mm. long (rarely to 10 mm.). Thyrses merely terminal or aggregated into loose panicles; cymes 3–10-flowered; peduncles of cymes 1 mm. long and pubescent or absent; pedicels 2–3 mm. long, pubescent. Flowers whitish or greenish white, fragrant and nectariferous. Cup ± 2 mm. wide, externally pubescent. Sepals ± 1 mm. long. Petals ± 1 mm. long. Style ± 0.5 mm. long. Fruit 6–8 mm. long, 8–11 mm. wide. Fig. 4.