Pedistylis galpinii (schinz ex Sprague) Wiens

Large shrubs perhaps exceeding 2 m high, glabrous, older plants forming much enlarged (up to 1 m across!) haustorial connections with host. Younger branches often densely lenticellate, nodes of older branches usually greatly swollen. Leaves opposite-subopposite, mostly oblong, often slightly falcate, highly variable in length (50-)70-80(-120) x 10-20 mm, penninerved, veins often raised on lower surface; petioles 8-10 mm long. Inflorescence a 2(-3)-flowered umbel, axillary, or often in pairs on swollen nodes of older branches, with stout peduncles and pedicels, each about 5 mm long. Flowers 5-merous, radially symmetrical (tube without unilateral split). Corolla yellow, gamopetalous, lobes reflexed and about as long as tube; mature buds 70-80 mm long. Filaments at maturity curving outward about 90 degrees or more, becoming reddish, attached at base of lobes. Style near apex bending downward in a broad curve for 180 degrees or more (as a shepherd's crook), also becoming reddish; stigma broadly ovate. Berries ellipsoid, c. 20 x 12 mm, yellow-green, with scattered warts.