Serjania pluvialiflorens Croat

Tendrilled lianas; stems terete, the younger stems with a few lines of short, sparse trichomes, otherwise glabrous and vernicose, the older stems glabrous; wood simple. Leaves biternate; petiole and rachis angled and slightly ribbed, usually sparsely villous at least on the upper side; petioles 1.5-6 cm long; leaflets ovate to elliptic or obovate, sessile, obtuse to acuminate at the apex, acute at the base, 3-9 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, crenate above the middle, the teeth usually glandular, the surface glandular and pellucid-punctate, glabrous except sometimes short-pubescent on the veins and with axillary villous tufts beneath. Thyrses on solitary racemes borne on tendrils and in leaf axils or densely congested in termi-nal paniculate racemes to 20 cm long; pedicels 1-2 mm long. Flowers white, to ca. 4.5 mm long; sepals orbicular to obovate, glabrate to tomentulose outside, pubescent or glabrous within; petals spatulate, to 4.5 mm long, glabrous, the scale 2/3-3/4 as long as the petal, each subtended by a triangular to oblong, glabrous gland, the anterior scales ca. 3 mm long, villous especially along the margin, the crest yellow, glabrous, hammer shaped, the 'appendage densely villous through-out, ca. 1 mm long,, the lateral petals with or without subtending glands, their scales lacking crests; disc gland oblong, glabrous; filaments flattened, villous; ovary glabrous or villous near the apex and on the dorsal side of the stigmas. Fruits ovate-cordate, glabrous, 2-3 cm long, 1.7-2.3 cm wide, the cell of the fruit