Compilation
Landolphia swynnertonii

Scandent shrub or liane attaining up to 40 m. with support from trees. Stems deeply fluted “like a bundle of parallel ropes”; bark brown with grey spots. Young stems glabrous or hispidulous. Leaves membranous, drying brownish green, usually not strongly discolorous; petiole 3–8 mm. long, glabrous or pubescent, often rugose, deeply channelled and often folded into a tube; lamina (4)5–12(14) x (1·5)1·7–5 cm., ovate-or elliptic-oblong, the apex cuspidate-attenuate into a short round-tipped acumen, the base acute to rounded. Upper leaf surface mat or somewhat glossy, completely glabrous; midrib rather wide, scarcely channelled; secondary and tertiary veins impressed so that the surface bears a reticulum of shallow cracks. Lower surface completely glabrous or with pubescent midrib; midrib prominent, lateral nerves sometimes raised, tertiary reticulation level with surface, easily seen with a hand-lens. Tendrils common. Inflorescences terminal and axillary few- to several-flowered cymes or racemes, forming dense clusters or frequently elongating and becoming tendrillous; axes glabrous or pubescent. Flowers subtended by 2 sepal-like bracteoles, strongly jasmine-scented. Calyx of 5 strongly imbricate ovate sepals 1·5–2 mm. long, united at the base, glabrous with minutely ciliate margins, c. 1/5–1/4 as long as corolla tube. Corolla white, the tube and reverse of lobes tinged pink or yellow; corolla tube 7·5–9 mm. long, slightly widened in the middle at the level of the anthers, outer surface glabrous or sparsely hairy; corolla lobes narrowly elliptic, ± as long as tube, glabrous. Stamens inserted at the middle of the corolla tube; anthers 1·5–1·75 mm. long. Ovary 1 mm. high, conical, glabrous; style, clavuncle and stigma 1·5–2 mm. long. Fruits up to 10 cm. in diameter, globose. Seeds 8–17 mm. long.