Gnetum leptostachyum Blume

Stout climber. Leaves coriaceous, brown when dry, elliptic-oblong, up to 30 by 12 cm, often much smaller; secondary nerves bent, distinctly joining. ♂ Inflorescences often cauline, much branched, up to 33 cm long, catkins 3-6 cm long, 3-4 mm thick. ♂ Flowers 30-40 to each collar, immersed in a dense hair tuft, broadly obconic; sporophyll filiform, twice as long as the perianth. Sterile ♀ flowers 8-10 in each collar, broadly ovate. ♀ Inflorescences similar, their catkins 10 cm long. ♀ Flowers 6 to each collar, immersed in a dense hair tuft, globose, 3 mm thick. Fruits pink, shining, shortly ellipsoidal, obtuse, 2 cm long, 1½ cm thick; outer envelop thinly fleshy, middle one thinly woody, inner one papery. Seed 12 mm long, 8 mm thick.

Lowland forest, montane forests, and also in heath forest and close to mangrove forest, often on slopes and ridges; at elevations up to 1,800 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.