Parsonsia velutina R.Br.

Branchlets sparsely brown tomentose. Leaves opposite; petiole 1.1-3.5 cm long; blade papery to subcoriaceous, ovate to elliptic, 5-12.7 by 2.7-7.8 cm, 1.3-2.2 times as long as wide, apex acuminate, base rounded to cordate, velutinous beneath, pubescent on midrib to all over above, 5-9 pairs of secondary veins, strongly ascending, tertiary venation reticulate. Inflorescence of axillary cymes, flowers clustered at tips, 3.6-14 cm long; brown appressed velutinous; peduncles 2.2-11.3 cm long; pedicels 1.7-2.5 mm long. Sepals linear, reflexed, 2-3 by 0.6-1 mm, 2-4.8 times as long as wide, appressed brown velutinous. Corolla yellowish green, buds ovoid, lobes slightly overlapping, open corolla campanulate; tube 1.5-2.3 mm long, 0.6-0.9 times as long as sepals, 0.9-1.3 times as long as lobes; lobes triangular, 1.4-2.4 by 1.1-1.3 mm, apex acute; pubescent on lobes except on margin and upper part of tube outside, bearded in throat and in 5 rows down tube inside. Stamens inserted at 0.4-0.6 mm from corolla base which is 0.2-0.3 of tube length; anthers oblong, tails acute to obtuse, 1.5-2.6 by 0.5-0.6 mm, 3-4.8 times as long as wide. Disk of 5 separate lobes, oblong, each lobe deeply bifid and then each half bifid or 3-dentate again, 0.8-1 mm long. Ovary 0.8-0.9 mm long; style 1.1-1.4 mm long; style head 0.7-0.8 mm long. Fruit linear, densely brown pubescent, 8.2-15 by 0.5-1 cm. Seeds: grain 8.8-14.3 by 1.6-2.4 mm; coma 2.3-3.4 cm long.

Grows in tropical and subtropical rainforests, and in drier rainforests and vine thickets.