Astephanus zeyheri Turcz.

Perennial, much-branched, herbaceous scrambling or twining climber, sap clear; 0.153.00 m long. Leaves spreading, subcoriaceous, linear-lanceolate to elliptic, 5-20 x 2.016.8 mm, base cuneate to subcordate, apex acute to obtuse, margins thickened or slightly revolute; petioles 1.5-2.5 mm long or subsessile. Inflorescences in pseudo-umbels, 2-5-flowered; peduncle subsessile or 2-12 mm long, often somewhat pendulous; pedicels 2-12 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, apex acute to almost obtuse, 2-3 mm long. Corolla tubular-campanulate; tube ± 4.5-5.0 x 3 mm, 5 hairy patches inside at base pointing downwards (and sometimes alternating with sepals); lobes 2.0-2.5 x 1.0-1.5 mm, spreading-erect, oblong, apex obtuse, twisted near apex, red to purple-red to white, edges of lobes cream-coloured. Staminal column 1.6-2.0 mm high. Staminal corona absent (reduced to a small thickening on anther backs). Anthers erect and apically appressed against conical style-stigma-head, extended beyond anthers by 2.5-3.0 mm, apically obtuse. Pseudostipe long.