Lepisanthes ramiflora (Radlk.) Leenh.

Small tree up to 22.5 m high and 2 cm in diam., or shrub. Twigs 5-7 mm in diam., yellowish to reddish brown, densely pustular-lenticellate, sparsely hirsute, early glabrescent. Leaves pari-(rarely im-pari-)pinnate, (3-)4-6-jugate, 40-50 cm; petiole and rachis sparsely hairy to subglabrous; petiole terete, 6-18 cm long; wings of petiole and rachis up to 5 mm wide; pseudo-stipules ovate, 0.8-3.5 by 0.5-2 cm, base cordate, apex acute to rounded, penninerved. Leaflets (sub)opposite, sessile, oblong (sometimes slightly obovate), up to 33 by 10.5 cm, index 3-5, chartaceous, sometimes slightly bullate, grey or brown above to greenish beneath, midrib beneath at least near the base sparsely hirsute; base oblique, narrowed, cordate; apex tapering acuminate, acute; midrib rounded beneath, nerves 1-2.5 cm apart, angle to midrib 65-70°, more or less curved, at least those in the upper half distinctly looped and joined at some distance from the margin. Inflorescences cauliflorous, several to many fascicled on knobs on the stem, simple or hardly branched, racemoid, c. 1.5 cm long, flowers few; pedicels patent, 1.5-5 mm long, slender. Flowers 4-merous. Sepals pale pink, outer 2 elliptic, 2.5 by 2 mm, with petaloid margin, inner broad-ovate, 3 by 2 mm, for the greater part petaloid. Petals white, sparsely long ciliate near the base, 0.4 mm long clawed, blade semi-transversely ellipsoid, 1 by 1.8 mm; scale broad, rounded to bilobed, c. 0.3-0.5 as high as the blade, slightly hairy. Disc pale yellow, glabrous. Stamens 5-7; anthers 1 mm, glabrous, cream-coloured. Ovary suborbicular, flattened, 2-celled, pale yellowish; style short, stigma dome-shaped, slightly bilobed, white. Fruits transversely ellipsoid, slightly bilobed, 1 by 1.5 cm, crimson to dark purple, incompletely 2-celled. Seeds ellipsoid.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in secondary forest from sea level to 100 m above sea level.

Uses The fruits are eaten.

Plants can be grown from seeds.