Connarus paniculatus Roxb.

Liana (acc. to Roxburgh a large tree), sometimes a shrub. Branchlets minutely ferruginous-tomentose at the tip, early glabrescent. Leaves 2-3-jugate, glabrous; petiolules ½-1 cm. Leaflets oblong to lanceolate, 10-24 by 3½-8 cm, stiff-chartaceous to thin-coriaceous; base subpeltate, rounded, sometimes cuneate or sometimes slightly cordate; apex blunt to shortly and broadly blunt-acuminate, acumen not rarely slightly emarginate; nerves c. 5-12 pairs, patent to ascending, slightly to distinctly curved, not joined, inconspicuous above; veins parallel, not very dense, nearly invisible to distinct beneath. Inflorescences (in Malayan specimens unknown) broadly paniculate, 10-80 cm long, shortly and densely ferruginous-tomentose, glabrescent. Bracts scaly, minute. Sepals elliptic to obovate, acute, 2½-3½ by 1-1½ mm, blunt, distinctly keeled, outside densely ferruginous-pubescent, inside subglabrous. Petals linear-lanceolate, c. 7 mm long, acute, outside densely puberulous, inside tomentose. Stamens shortly connate for ½-1¼ mm, epipetalous ones much shorter than episepalous ones and possibly sterile; filaments glabrous. Fruits semi-obovoid, convex, 3-3½ by 1¾-2 cm, base narrowed into a short, stipe 3-4 mm long, beak inconspicuous, inserted at c. 90 % of the height to near the apex, pericarp thin, outside striate, granulate, glabrescent, inside sparsely to rather densely short-hairy.

In forests at low altitude on limestone. Fr. May, July, Aug., Oct.