Helixanthera pulchra Danser

Glabrous except for young inflorescences and flowers sparsely tomentose. Leaves spirally arranged, sometimes crowded into false whorls; lamina lanceolate to elliptic or ovate, 10-23 by (2.5-)4-l 1 cm, cuneate to truncate at the base to a distinct petiole 10-25 mm long, acuminate and acute at the apex, lustrous above, dull below; venation pinnate with the midrib visible above and raised below and the main laterals few and faintly visible above. Inflorescences at the nodes, a many-flowered raceme or spike sometimes subtended by an involucre of a few narrow bracts up to 5 mm long; axis (100-) 150-250 mm long; pedicels 0-2(-3) mm long; bracts strongly reflexed, with a dorsal spurlike sac, 1-2 mm long. Ovary campanulate or depressed barrel-shaped, 1.2-2 mm long and wide, usually with irregular wrinkles or furrows persisting to the young fruit. Corolla in mature bud 5-merous, (3.5-)5-7(-8.5) mm long, slender in the middle, weakly clavate and rounded at the apex, reddish yellow to bright red. Anther 1-1.5 mm long, obtuse, reflexed, slightly shorter than the free part of the filament. Style (2.5-)3-4.5 (-5.5) mm long, reaching to the base of the anthers, gradually widened upwards, lacking a constriction, angular; stigma as wide as the style.