Combretum punctatum Blume

Climbing shrub or liana. Young branchlets densely ferrugineous-or cinereous-scaly, individual scales usually very conspicuous. Leaves opposite, subcoriaceous, densely scaly on both surfaces, individual scales usually conspicuous, lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate, narrowly elliptic or broadly elliptic to almost suborbicular, occasionally narrowly elliptic, usually about 7-10 by 4-7 cm (up to 18 by 11 cm in specimens from Burma) usually abruptly acuminate at the apex and rounded at the base; petiole 5-12 mm. Inflorescence a terminal panicle of elongated or pseudo-capitate spikes, the latter up to 7 cm long; rhachis densely cinereous-or ferrugineous-scaly. Flowers yellowish, fragrant, sessile, 4-merous. Lower receptacle (ovary) 7½-2 mm long, densely ferrugineous-scaly otherwise glabrous. Upper receptacle 3-5 mm long measuring to the tips of the calyx-lobes, densely ferrugineous-scaly, lower part, containing the disk, infundibuliform, upper part cupuliform, terminating in 4 deltoid calyx-lobes less than 1 mm long. Petals 4, obovate, narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate, unguiculate, about 1½ mm long, glabrous. Disk infundibuliform, margin free for about 1 mm, barbate. Stamens 8, filaments 3½ mm long, anthers 0.6 mm long. Fruit usually suborbicular, sometimes obpyriform in outline, very variable in size and shape, sparsely scaly (densely when young), 1.2-2½ by 1½-2½ cm, with 4 thin, flexible wings, up to 1 cm broad.