Ichnocarpus frutescens (L.) W.T.Aiton

Climber or trailing shrub to 20 m high. Branchlets glabrous, puberulent only around nodes, puberulent all over or shortly tomentose, frequently becoming glabrous and sparsely lenticellate with age. Leaves: petiole 4.5-29 mm long, glabrous, puberulent or tomentose; blade papery or subcoriaceous, elliptic or ovate, rarely obovate, 1.3-15 by 0.4-8.5 cm, 1.3-4.4 times as long as wide, apex usually short acuminate, more rarely acute or obtuse, base cuneate to rounded, puberulent only on midrib beneath, sparsely to densely tomentose all over beneath and sparsely so above or glabrous, 4-8 pairs of secondary veins. Inflorescence axillary and terminal, 0.8-17 cm long, peduncle and pedicels puberulent or short tomentose, more rarely glabrous; bracts ovate, deciduous; pedicels 1-5 mm long. Sepals ovate, thickened at base, usually spreading, 0.6-2.4 by 0.3-1.1 mm, 1.1-3.7 times as long as wide, apex acute or, more rarely, acuminate or obtuse, puberulent or almost glabrous; colleters few or absent. Corolla white or yellow, sometimes with a darker centre; tube 2-4 by 1-1.4 mm, 1.5-3.4 times as long as calyx, 0.5-1 times as long as lobes, outside glabrous to densely puberulent, glabrous or pubescent inside in upper part of tube; lobes 2.6-6.2 by 0.9-1.3 mm, 3.3-6.1 times as long as wide, ciliate, outside glabrous or puberulent on that part exposed in bud, villous at tube throat. Stamens inserted 0.9-1.7 mm from base which is 0.4-0.7 of tube length; filaments 0.2-0.5 mm long; anthers elliptic, 0.9-1.7 by 0.3-0.5 mm, apex mucronate, base short sagittate. Disk lobes narrow, separate, 0.5-1 mm long, 1-2.2 times as long as ovary, slightly bulging on top. Ovaries 0.3-0.7 mm long, pubescent; style 0.4-1.7 mm long; style head 0.7-1.8 mm long with a globular base. Fruit tomentose, sometimes becoming glabrous, 0.5-17.1 cm by 1-5 mm. Seeds elliptic or linear, 7-26 by 0.8-2 mm; coma fawn, cream or white, 1.8-3.8 cm long.

It is a tropical plant. It can also grow in warm temperate regions. In Nepal it grows between 150-900 m altitude. In northern Australia it grows from sea level to 720 m altitude. It grows in open as well as shady places. It needs a well drained soil. It can tolerate moderate frosts. In Yunnan.

The ripe fruit are eaten.

Plants are grown by seed or cuttings.