Compilation
Landolphia glaberrima

Liane climbing to 12 m. or more; young twigs ferrugineous-pubescent, indumentum later becoming greyish, rather persistent; bark on young branches dark reddish brown with tiny circular white lenticels. Leaves thinly coriaceous; petiole c. 5 mm. long, pubescent all round; lamina 7·5–11·6 x 3–4·4 cm., oblong, apex shortly acuminate, acumen rounded, base rounded. Upper surface glossy, brownish-green when dry, glabrous, midrib impressed, other nerves raised or level; lower surface mat, pale brownish when dry, lamina glabrous or sparsely pubescent near the petiole, midrib subglabrous to hispid, all nerves raised. Tendrils uncommon. Inflorescences terminal many-flowered capitate or lax cymose panicles on peduncles 0-1·8 cm. long; axes densely ferrugineous-pubescent. Flowers white or cream-coloured, sweet-scented. Calyx 2–2·5 mm. long, lobes broadly elliptic, densely appressed ferrugineous-pubescent, the indumentum characteristically parted along the median line. Corolla tube 6–6·5 mm. long, swollen in the upper half but the wall not thickened, constricted at the mouth, puberulent on outer surface and pubescent internally above the stamens; corolla lobes 2–3·5 x 1–1·5 mm., elliptic, subglabrous on outer surface and glabrous within. Stamens inserted in the upper part of the tube so that the anthers reach to 1 mm. of the mouth; anthers subsessile, c. 0·75 mm. long. Ovary c. 0·5 mm. high, compressed-globose, pubescent; style, clavuncle and stigma 3–3·5 mm. long. Fruit up to 15 cm. in diameter, globose, yellow or green turning brown, inedible. Seeds 10–18 mm. long.