Compilation
Landolphia welwitschii

A scandent shrub, with sensitive inflorescences acting as tendrils; young branches minutely rusty-tomentose, at length slightly glabrescent, dark reddish-brown or almost black, scantily dotted with whitish lenticels. Leaves oblong to lanceolate-oblong, obscurely or distinctly shortly and obtusely acuminate, rounded (rarely subacute) at the base, 2 1/2–4 in. long, 1–2 in. broad, thinly coriaceous, very scantily pubescent on both sides when quite young, soon glabrescent, dark green and glossy above, much paler beneath; midrib channelled above, raised below; secondary nerves much spreading, 12–15 on each side, almost straight, very slender, faintly raised on both sides, alternating with still finer tertiary nerves, all the nerves and the delicate network of veins dark brown or black below; marginal arches flat; petiole up to 3 lin. long. Panicle elongate, peduncled, bearing dense clusters of many sessile flowers at the ends of its spreading or recurved branches, finely rusty tomentose all over; rhachis (2–5 in. long) or some of the branches acting as tendrils; peduncle 2–4 in. long, slender; bracts oblong, acute, tomentose. Calyx rusty-tomentose, 1 1/4–1 1/2 lin. long; sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse, more or less laterally compressed in the upper half, and therefore apparently acuminate. Corolla 1 1/4–1 3/4 in. long in bud; tube slender, cylindric, about 9–12 lin. long, slightly widened and staminiferous about 1 1/2–2 lin. above the base, very minutely pubescent, usually along 5 fine longitudinal lines, otherwise glabrous, yellow at the base, turning purple; lobes linear-oblong, obtuse, 5–8 lin. long, ciliate, snow-white. Anthers ovate, oblong, acute, scarcely 1 lin. long. Ovary globose, top very minutely rufo-papillose. Style and stigma scarcely 1 1/2 lin. long, the latter cylindric from a thicker base, bifid. Fruit globose, of the size of a small apple, finely tomentose when young.