Flagellaria guineensis Schumach.

Scandent climber to 5(–10) m. high, climbing by means of the involute leaf-tip tendrils.. Leaf-sheaths cylindric, slit to the base or almost so, with inconspicuously overlapped scarious margins, the shoulders rounded or subauriculate with scarious margins; leaf-blade oblong-lanceolate, with or without an abruptly widening subpetiolar base, and with a cirriform involute tip, 12–18 cm. long excluding the tendril, (l.4–)l.8–2.4(–2.8) cm. wide, entireat the margins, glabrous.. Inflorescence a terminal panicle, 8–12 cm. long, with flowers subsessile in short racemes; rhachis and branches glabrous; bracts at the base of the pedicel ovate, 1–1.25 mm. long, membranous; pedicel about as long as the bract.. Perianth-segments 6, rarely 8, ovate, 2–3 mm. long in subequal whorls, those of the outer whorl slightly smaller, white or cream.. Stamens exserted, as many as the perianth-segments; filaments attached at the base to the perianth, the alternate series sometimes reduced to short naked filaments.. Ovary globose, with a terminal style and 3 (rarely 2) linear stigmas.. Drupe spherical, 5–9 mm. in diameter, red, with persistent style-base and perianth.. Fig. 1.

Coastal forest, swampy forest, along rivers, in forest edges, thickets and waste places, at elevations up to 1,100 metres. It is often found as a weed in rice fields.

Can be grown by seedlings.