Abrus pulchellus subsp. cantoniensis (Hance) Verdc.

Lianas, climbing, 1-2 m tall. Branches slender, smooth, white hairy, caducous when old. Leaflets oblong or obovate-ob­long, 0.5-1.5 × 0.3-0.5 cm, strigose abaxially, pilose adaxially, distinctly subcordate at base, truncate or slightly retuse with mucro at apex. Flowers ca. 6 mm, fascicled at short rachis; pedicel short. Corolla purple-red or light purple. Legumes flat, 2-3.3 × ca. 1.3 cm, beaked at apex, sparsely white strigose, with 4 or 5 seeds. Seeds black-brown. Fl. Aug.