Dichapetalum crassifolium Chodat

Large liana up to at least 40 m. long and 5 cm. in diameter at base, lianescent shrub or shrub.. Stem and branches usually with prominent rather large lenticels; inner bark and intruding phloem when freshly cut exuding a reddish sour sticky slime turning dark brown to black in drying; branchlets rusty and greyish appressed puberulous or appressed pubescent, soon glabrescent or not.. Stipules usually soon deciduous, subulate to narrowly oblong-triangular, 1–5 mm. long, appressed pubescent to puberulous.. Petiole (1–)3–10(–16) mm. long, appressed pubescent to puberulous; blade usually coriaceous, elliptic to obovate, (4–)8–14(–22) × (1–)4–8(–11) cm., cuneate to truncate at base, usually with an obtuse, sometimes acutish or mucronate acumen of 0.5–1(–2) cm.; midrib with (3–)4–6(–7) main lateral nerves on each side, usually soon glabrescent, beneath often with pilose domatia; glands often conspicuous in fresh young leaves, rather inconspicuous in dried leaves, beneath only or at least more numerous beneath.. Inflorescences usually pedunculate, up to 50-flowered, up to 4 times branched, appressed puberulous to tomentellous; peduncle (0–)2–7(–12) mm. long: bracts and bracteoles minute, ± deltoid, less than 1 mm. long; pedicel up to 5 mm. long, densely appressed puberulous, the upper part up to 1 mm. long.. Sepals erect or nearly so, from ovate to obovate or oblong, 2.5–4(–5.5) × 1–2(–3) mm., acutish to obtuse, densely appressed puberulous to tomentellous outside, inside often partly or less densely so.. Petals erect, entire or emarginate at apex, narrowly oblong-obovate or spathulate, 2.5–6 mm. long, ± 1 mm. wide, adnate at base for 0.5–2.5 mm. to the filaments, glabrous or with a few hairs outside and/or inside, the margin sometimes ciliate above the adnation.. Stamens 2.5–6 mm. long, glabrous or with a few hairs on the filaments.. Pistil 3-merous, 2.5–6(–7) mm. long; ovary densely covered with short stiff hairs; style glabrous or with a few hairs in the lower part.. Fruits 1–3-lobed, 1–3-seeded; 1-seeded fruits: ellipsoid to obovoid or subglobose, usually laterally compressed, 15–25 mm. long, 10–20 mm. broad, 10–18 mm. thick, obtuse at apex, smooth to slightly bullate (wrinkled or rather strongly bullate when dry), densely velutinous-tomentose, orange at maturity; when 2–3-seeded usually deeply cleft apically and laterally, when 1-seeded the aborted cells usually present as small lumps; endocarp bony.. Seed subellipsoid, ± 10 mm. long.