Sarmentose shrub 0.5–4 m high, or liana to 40 m long, deciduous, the flowers appearing before or with the leaves; trunk to 17 cm in diameter, bark pale brown, corky, deeply fissured; branches lenticellate, with many corky protuberances to 1 cm high; branchlets dark or reddish brown, glabrous or rarely minutely puberulous.. Leaves opposite, ternate, or rarely quaternate; blade elliptic or ovate, 2–15 cm long, 1.5–7 cm wide, base rounded or cuneate, apex acuminate, glabrous; petiole 2–21 mm long.. Inflorescence terminal or in forks, 1–11-flowered, sessile or pedunculate, congested; pedicels 2–12 mm long.. Flowers fragrant; sepals purple and green, ovate or elliptic, 5–20 mm long, acute; corolla tube white and turning yellow proximally, pink and turning purple distally, the inside white streaked with red, 17–40 mm long, corolla lobes white turning yellow, ovate, 7–20 mm long, 6–18 mm wide, narrowing into the pale yellow 4–12 cm long pendulous tails, corona lobes 5–22 mm long.. Fruit brown or purple-brown, the mericarps ± opposite-divergent, narrowly ovoid, 10–28 cm long, 1.4–4.4 cm in diameter, slightly sulcate, lenticellate, glabrous; seeds 8–20 mm long, densely pubescent, with a stalked coma 4–16 cm long.
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Shrubs stolon bearing, to 4 m tall, deciduous, latex clear or white. Branches densely lenticellate, branchlets dark or reddish brown. Petiole 0.2-2.1 cm; leaf blade elliptic or ovate, 2-15 X 1.5-7 cm, papery or thinly leathery, apex acuminate, acumen 0.2-2 cm; lateral veins 3-6 pairs, glabrous. Pedicel to 1.2 cm, puberulent. Sepals ovate or elliptic, 0.5-2 cm, puberulent. Corolla yellow-white outside, purple-yellow inside; tube 1.7-4 cm, glabrous outside; lobes including tail to 13.5 cm, pendulous. Anthers included. Ovary puberulent. Follicles 10-28 X 2.2-4.4 cm, apex obtuse. Seeds 0.8-2 cm, beak to 8 cm, coma 2.5-10.5 cm. Fl. Dec-May. 2n = 18.
Fruiting follicles horizontally spreading, thick and woody, about 8 in. long and 1-1 1/2 in. broad.
A stout, glabrous climber up to about 20 ft. high
Long-tailed flowers, pale yellow to almost white
A vine or creeper. The stem is 20 cm across.
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