Compilation
Plectronia hispida

Scandent shrub or liana, 3–25 m tall; young branches sparsely to densely covered with crisped or spreading golden to rust-coloured hairs.Leaf blades 5.5–13.5 × 3.5–6 cm, oblong-lanceolate to ovate, acuminate at apex, rounded, truncate or more frequently subcordate to cordate at base, often bullate, usually drying brown, glabrous to sparsely pubescent on upper surface, glabrescent to densely pubescent beneath; lateral nerves in 6–9 main pairs; tertiary venation finely reticulate; domatia present as tufts of hair; petioles 3–7 mm long sparsely to densely covered with crisped or patent hairs; stipules 9–13 mm long, up to 6 mm wide at base, lanceolate to ovate, gradually acuminate, pubescent outside; leaves subtending lateral branches smaller, orbicular.Flowers 5-merous, borne in 20–50-flowered pedunculate cymes; peduncles 5–15 mm long, sparsely to densely pubescent; pedicels 5–7 mm long, pubescent to densely pubescent; bracteoles 3–6 mm long, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate.Calyx tube 1 mm long, densely covered with straight or crisped hairs or occasionally glabrescent; limb 1.25–1.5 mm long, divided into teeth for one third to half its length, glabrescent to sparsely pubescent, usually ciliate.Corolla creamy-white; tube 2.25–4 mm long, with a ring of deflexed hairs just below the throat inside; lobes 2.5–4 × 1.25–2.25 mm, oblong-lanceolate to ovate, acute and thickened at apex.Anthers fully exserted but seldom reflexed.Style 5–10 mm long, glabrous; pollen presenter 1.25–2.25 mm long; disk pubescent.Fruit 7–9 × 11–14 mm, broadly oblong in outline, slightly indented at apex, glabrous to glabrescent, black when mature.Pyrene 9–11 × 6–7 mm, obovoid with ventral face flattened or hemispherical; lid-like area lying across the apex with a central crest.Seed with endosperm streaked with granules.