Description: Woody climber to 20 m long, 10–15 cm diam. Most part covered with stellate hairs on lower surface of leaves, petioles, inflorescences, epicalyx and calyx. Stipules caducous Leaves spiral, crowded at the ends of branches, shallowly 3–5-lobed, 7–12 x 8–12 cm, base cordate, apex acuminate, margin irregularly crenate-serrate, glands dotted on upper surface; petiole 5–10 cm long. Inflorescences terminal, drooping, racemose, to 20 cm long; flowers many, pedicels 1.5–1.8 cm, articulate ca 0.5 cm from top. Epicalyx 5–7, connate at base, reddish green, persistent; lobes elliptic to oblong ca 0.7–1 cm long. Calyx 5, connate about the middle, 1–1.4 cm long; lobes ovate acute, ca 5–8 cm long, each lobe with a nerve along the middle. Petals 5, obovate, pale yellow to creamy with dark red centre, stellate puberulous outside, 3–3.5 cm long; apex reflexed. Staminal tube 1.5–2 cm long with unequally 5-toothed apex; filaments ca 1 mm long; anthers horse-shoe shaped, yellow. Ovary 5-celled, ovoid, densely pubescent, ca 3 mm, 12 ovules per cell; style ca 1.6 cm, included in the staminal tube; stigmas shortly hairs at tip. |
