Tetracera macrophylla Wall. ex Hook.F. & Thomson

Liana up to 10 m or ?tree; younger branches usually more or less scabrid. Leaves elliptic to oblong, ca 8-15 by 5-10 cm, little to very scabrid, with rounded to obtuse apex and base. Petiole ca 15-30 mm long, 2-4 mm broad, up to 8 mm broad in the leaves at the base of the inflorescences. Inflorescence terminal, 25-200-flowered, often with 1-4 leaves in the basal part, 10-40 by 4-15 cm; branches scabrid with stellate groups of hairs. Flower ca 2-2½ cm diam. Sepals 5-6, the outer two 8-9 by 7-8 mm, the inner 3-4 11-12 by 8-9 mm, scabrid outside. Petals 3, rather thick, apex not emarginate. Stamens 5-7 mm long; Anthercells manifestly separated at the apex, connective strongly emarginate between them. Carpels 3-4, with a few rigid hairs on the back, with ca 14 ovules. Capsules ovoid, 8-10 by 6-8 mm with a 2-3 mm long beak, 1-2-seeded. Seeds 6.5 by 4½ mm; aril unequal-sided, 5-9 mm long, slightly laciniate over ca 1/8 of its length.

Climber in dry as well asin swampy forests, up to 300 m alt. Seems to be rarely in flower.

Uses. Medical use unimportant, cf BURKILL A dictionary of the economic products of the Malay Peninsula 1935

Can be grown by seedlings.