Compilation
Tapinanthus brunneus

Stems to 1 m. or so; plants glabrous except sometimes slightly farinose around axils; branchlets angled. Leaves alternate to opposite and ternate; petiole 0–2 mm. long, the lamina expanding on the attenuate part at the base so the leaves become more sessile with age; lamina coriaceous, light to dark green or yellow-green, elliptic to oblanceolate or obovate, 2.5–13 cm. long, 1.5–8 cm. wide, varying considerably in size even on same plant, obtuse or rounded at the apex, cuneate and decurrent to base, oldest occasionally rounded, 3(–5)-nerved from base. Flowers few–numerous, crowded in axils and at older nodes; pedicels 0–1.5 mm. long; bract cupular to tubular, umbonate, with a very small limb, 1.5–3 mm. long. Receptacle 1.5–2 mm. long; calyx tubular, (2–)2.5–3 mm. long, ciliolate. Corolla 3.2–4 cm. long, pink or occasionally greenish white, with several coloured bands near the base of the lobes, the tips red, elsewhere corolla-tube sometimes yellow to orange; tube narrowed over filaments in bud, only slightly expanded over the anthers; basal swelling usually conspicuous from inception or at least from fairly young bud-stage, obovoid, attenuate to base, not splitting the calyx, 5–6 mm. long, 2–3 mm. in diameter, tube narrowly constricted for several mm. above; tube ± papillate only along sutures inside; lobes erect, 8–9 mm. long, upper part linear-elliptic, 5–6 mm. long, 0.6–0.8 mm. wide. Filaments red, incoiled once, flattened, tapered, corrugated with the last 0.5 mm. hardened; anthers 1.5–2 mm. long. Style green to red, slightly angled, scarcely swollen opposite the filaments, tapered above; stigma capitate, 0.6–0.7 mm. across. Berry obovoid to urceolate, 7–8 mm. long, 4.5–5 mm. in diameter, crowned by the calyx, smooth.