Lianas woody, to 25 m, latex white. Trunk to 10 cm in diam.; branches dark or purplish brown, densely lenticellate, branchlets glabrous. Petiole 0.5-3.2 mm; leaf blade ovate, elliptic, or obovate, 5-18 2-9 cm, leathery, glabrous; lateral veins 5-11 pairs. Cymes 3-32-flowered, glabrous. Flowers fragrant. Sepals obovate or broadly so, 0.7-1.8 cm. Corolla white, turning yellow at base, reddish or purple above, throat reddish; tube 2.5-4.5 cm, inflated in distal half; lobes orbicular or nearly so, 1.5-3.5 X 1.5-3.2 cm, apex rounded; corona lobes pink, awl-shaped, 0.5-1.5 cm, exserted. Filaments pubescent adaxially, connective glabrous, extending into a tail 6-12 mm. Follicles divergent at 180°, cylindric, 23-41 X 3-4.3 cm. Seeds to 2 cm, beak 1.6-6.2 cm, coma to 5 cm. Fl. Feb. 2n = 18.
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A herb. It is a climbing vine. It can be 25 m long. The flowers are pink with a red throat.
A glabrous liana from W Africa, corolla without tails, white turning yellow to red-purple.
A woody climber. It grows 25 m long.
Primary and secondary moist forest, often at forest margins or on river banks, at elevations from sea-level up to 650 metres.
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A tropical plant. It is best in a wet soil with a pH of 7. It is best in full sun.
It is a tropical plant. It grows in rainforests and in humus rich soils.
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