Combretum latifolium Blume

Liana. Young branchlets scaly when very young, otherwise usually glabrous often reddish in colour. Leaves opposite, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, usually broadly elliptic or ovate-ellptic, sometimes suborbicular or elliptic, rarely narrowly elliptic (sucker shoots?) rather sparsely conspicuously scaly when young, when mature densely lepidote (under high magnification) but individual scales not conspicuous, otherwise glabrous, domatia often present but not hairy, 8-20 by 4-13 cm, often acuminate at the apex, acumen up to 1 cm long, cuneate or rounded at the base; petiole scaly when young, soon glabrescent, 7-20 mm long. Inflorescence a terminal or axillary panicle up to 20 cm long, of elongated 5-8 cm long spikes or occasionally an unbranched lateral spike, densely and finely velutinous. Bracts very small and soon caducous. Flowers greenish-white (occasionally pink?), 4-merous, subsessile. Lower receptacle (ovary) finely velutinous, 2½-3½ mm long. Upper receptacle finely velutinous narrowly tubular, 5-6 mm long, somewhat expanded at the apex and terminating in 4 narrowly triangular acute calyx-lobes 3 by 2 mm. Petals 4 suborbicular, glabrous, 2 by 2 mm, slightly emarginate at the apex and very shortly unguiculate at the base. Stamens 8 inserted at the margin of the disk; filaments 3½ mm long; anthers 0.8 mm long. Disk narrowly infundibuliform, margin thickened, free for about ½ mm, pilose. Style 8-8½ mm, rather stout. Fruit suborbicular (rarely obovate) in outline, 2-3 cm diam., with 4 thin, flexible wings, viscid-glandular especially on the body less so on the wings, shortly stipitate; stipe c. 2 mm long.

Widespread along margins of forest and in secondary forest, from sea-level up to 1000 m (fide Backer), but most records are below 500 m.