Compilation
Pleioceras orientale

Tree 5–12 m high, deciduous; branchlets densely pilose. Leaves petiolate; blade narrowly ovate or obovate, 3.5–14.5 cm long, 1–5.5 cm wide, puberulous above, tomentose beneath on the main veins; petiole 3–5 mm long, densely pilose. Inflorescence several-flowered, 4.5–6.5 cm long, pubescent on all parts; bracts 2.2–3 mm long, sometimes glabrous; peduncle 1–2 cm long; pedicels 7–15 mm long. Flowers with sepals green, 2–3 mm long, 1–2 mm wide; corolla yellow and violet or dark red, 13.5–20 mm long; tube 6–9 mm long; lobes 7.5–11 mm long, 4–6 mm wide, minutely pubescent outside, papillose inside; corona appendages bright yellow, 7, broomlike and filiform to truncate; stamens inserted 1.5–1.6 mm below the corolla mouth; pistil 8–9 mm long; style 6–8 mm long; ovules 120–150 in each carpel. Fruit dark green, follicles 20–30 cm long, 5–7 mm in diameter; seeds 10–18 mm long, greenish with a dense, 35 mm long tuft of hairs at the apex. Fig. 25 (p. 72).