Acridocarpus chloropterus Oliv.

Scandent shrub or tall woody climber with branches up to 15 m. in length.. Younger branches ± densely rusty pubescent, older ones quite glabrous, lenticellate.. Leaf-lamina oblong or oblong-elliptic, 7–15(–19) × 2.5–5.5 (–7) cm., acute to subobtuse or acuminate, rounded, rarely subcordate or broadly cuneate, at the base, coriaceous, ferrugineous-tomentose (more densely underneath) when young, later often glabrescent except usually beside the midrib underneath, with usually 1 pair of glands beneath near insertion of petiole and with 7–13 pairs of prominent lateral nerves; petiole 2–6 mm. long, stout, canaliculate, pubescent or glabrescent.. Inflorescences usually racemes terminating leafy branches, sometimes axillary, (5–)8–15 (–25) cm. long, many-flowered, pyramidal in outline; bracts triangular-lanceolate, 1–2 mm. long, densely ferrugineous-tomentose, eglandular; bracteoles very small, eglandular.. Flowers ± 2.25 cm. in diameter.. Calyx with 2–3 orbicular glands; lobes ovate, 3–3.5 × ± 2.5 mm., sericeous or glabrescent outside.. Petals elliptic to ovate, up to 11 × 8 mm., clawed, yellow.. Stamens with oblong-ovate glabrous anthers ± 4 mm. long; filaments thick, somewhat ligulate, ±1.5 mm. long.. Ovary densely ferrugineous-tomentose; styles 2, 8–10 mm. long, stout, terete, curved inwards.. Wing of samara obliquely obovate, 3–4(–5) × 1.5–2.3 cm., sometimes somewhat constricted in lower half, often distally oblique-truncate or obtuse, not clasping the nut, often purplish, usually glabrous.. Fig. 1/2, p. 4.