Paralepistemon shirensis (Oliv.) Lejoly & Lisowski

Robust shrubby climber up to 15 m tall. Stems woody, terete, up to 200 mm in diameter, whitish tomentose of very short appressed hairs, more densely so when young. Leaves broadly cordate to orbicular-ovate or cordate-ovate, 30-170 mm long and wide, entire, obtuse to acuminate or shortly and abruptly cuspidate at apex, often mucronulate, basal sinus wide and shallow to leaf base almost truncate, upper surface thinly and shortly pubescent, more densely so when young, densely white or greyish tomentose beneath; petiole rather slender, 15-120 mm long, densely tomentose. Inflorescence cymose in axils of upper leaves and forming lax terminal panicles; peduncle patent or erecto-patent, rather slender, densely tomentose like young stems and petioles, few-to many-flowered, 30-100 mm long; bracteoles thinly papery or almost membranous, oblong-oblanceolate, oblong-obovate or somewhat narrowly oblong-spathulate, much narrowed and subpetiolate at base, 7-22 mm long, pale yellowish brown when dry, hairy outside, glabrous inside, very early deciduous and rarely preserved; pedicels up to 20 mm long, densely tomentose. Sepals thin, almost papery, subequal, oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse, densely sericeo-tomentose outside, 8-15 mm long, at first erect, much imbricate, later accrescent, glabrescent and spreading, ultimately papery and brittle, brown and often purplish outside, pale straw-coloured inside, 10-17 mm long. Corolla white, widely funnel-shaped, 15-20 mm long; midpetaline areas sharply defined, densely silky. Fruit broadly ellipsoid or somewhat obovoid, 5-8 mm long, 5.0-6.5 mm wide, rounded-truncate to depressed at apex and shortly beaked, very densely greyish sericeo-tomentose, 1-seeded; pericarp hard, woody. Seed light brown or fawnish, subglobose-quadrangular, ±4 mm long, 3.5-4 mm wide, very shortly velutinous or puberulous.