Nesphostylis holosericea (welw. ex Baker) Verdc.

Perennial climbing or twining herb ± 1–3 m. long.. Stems densely covered with spreading ferruginous hairs.. Leaflets elliptic-rhomboid, oblong or lanceolate, the laterals somewhat oblique, 3–8 cm. long, 1·5–6 cm. wide, acute or rounded but mucronate at the apex, acute or rounded at the base, entire or sometimes ± 3-lobed, pubescent to velvety and often ferruginous on both surfaces; petiole 1·2–8 cm. long; rhachis 0·3–2·5 cm. long; petiolules 1·5–4 mm. long; stipules triangular, ± 4 mm. long.. Inflorescences 1-flowered; peduncles 1–5·5 cm. long; pedicels 2–9 mm. long; bracts deciduous, small, triangular, ± 2·5 mm. long; bracteoles ± persistent, large, paired, closely adpressed to the calyx, rounded-squarish, 6–10 mm. long and wide, velvety pubescent.. Calyx velvety pubescent; tube ± 6 mm. long; lobes ± 5 mm. long.. Standard blue or purple, rounded-rhombic, 2·5 cm. long, 2–7 cm. wide, emarginate.. Pods linear, 10–11 cm. long, 7·5–9 mm. wide, narrowed at both ends, margined, densely velvety ferruginous hairy.. Seeds dark brown, shiny, longest dimension 5·5–6·5 mm., shorter dimension 4 mm., 2·5–3 mm. thick; aril obliquely thickened and grooved, pale orange-brown speckled with black spots.. Fig. 101, p. 669.