Helinus mystacinus E.Mey. ex Steud.

Woody climbers to 10 m. or more.. Herbage usually appressed pilose to nearly tomentulose but occasionally nearly glabrous, the youngest shoots and nerves of the young blades being the most pubescent parts.. Leaf-blades ovate to broadly ovate, (l–)3–6 cm. long, (7–)17–50 mm. wide, at base rounded or usually shallowly cordate, at apex rounded or rarely acutish, mucronate, thin, at base 3-nerved, above the base on each side of midrib with 3–6 secondary nerves; petioles filiform, (3–)7–20 mm. long.. Stipules linear, (2–)3–6 mm. long, caducous.. Peduncles filiform, (l–)2–4 cm. long, sparsely pilose to tomentulose.. Pedicels filiform, (3–)5–10 mm. long in flower, 6–10 (–13) mm. long in fruit.. Cup pilose to tomentulose.. Sepals 1.5–2 mm. long, externally pilose to tomentulose.. Petals 1.4–1.8 mm. long, whitish.. Disk whitish.. Fruit pendulous, globose to slightly obovoid-globose, 5–7 mm. long, pilose and with crowded acute glandular tubercles rb 0.3 mm. long, ripening through shades of red, said to be blue-black when ripe.. Fig. 5.