Description:
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Slender woody twiner with minutely hairy stems up to c.5 m long, growing from a large tuber, latex white. Leaves opposite, broadly ovate to oblong or elliptic, 2.5–13 cm long, sometimes variable even on the same shoot, minutely hairy at least on the veins; petiole 0.5–5 cm long, minutely hairy. Inflorescences extra-axillary, subsessile, forming a dense sub-umbelliform cluster of flowers, minutely hairy; pedicels 3–5 mm long. Sepals ovate, c. 1 mm long, minutely hairy. Corolla rotate, yellow or green with brownish spots, c.10 mm in diameter and lobed for half its length; lobes broadly ovate or triangular, 2–3 mm long, hairless. Follicles and seeds unknown. |
| Literature:
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Goyder, D.J., Gilbert, M.G. & Venter, H.J.T. (2020). Apocynaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Pages 68 - 69. (Includes a picture).
Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 24.
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