Compilation
Alafia orientalis

Large liana to 30 m long, with white latex; trunk up to 10 cm in diameter; branches dark brown, with scattered pale brown lenticlels; branchlets glabrous. Leaves petiolate; blade elliptic, 4–14 cm long, 1–6 cm wide, bluntly acuminate to obtuse at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base, glabrous, with 5–12 pairs of upcurved secondary veins forming an angle of 40–60° with the midrib; petiole 3–8 mm long, glabrous. Inflorescence terminal, 2–6 cm long, 3–6 cm wide, many-flowered, dense, glabrous to puberulous; peduncle 2–7 mm long; pedicels 1–5 mm long. Flowers fragrant; sepals ovate, 2–4 mm long, obtuse, with 1–4 colleters at the edge; corolla orange to yellow with a dark red throat; mature bud with an ovoid or ellipsoid head as long as the tube, ciliate; tube 6–11 mm long; lobes obliquely ovate to obovate, 7–10 mm long, 4.5–8 mm wide, rounded; stamens with apex 0–1 mm below the mouth of the tube, inserted 3.5–5.5 mm from the base; style 2–4 mm long; ovules ± 100 in each carpel. Fruits brown, 20–60 cm long, 0.5–1 cm wide, glabrous; seed up to 16 mm long; coma 3–4 cm long.