Triaspis macropteron Welw. ex Oliv.

A tall woody climber (sometimes creeping) up to 4 m. or more in length; stems densely ferrugineous-pubescent when young, becoming glabrous when older.. Leaf-lamina ovate, broadly lanceolate, lanceolate-oblong or oblong, 6–13 x 2–6.5 cm., acute or apiculate, or sometimes subobtuse, cordate, rounded or cuneate at base, densely ferrugineous-pubescent on both surfaces when young, later usually glabrous, dark green above, grey-green beneath, with the secondary and tertiary nerves ± strongly developed; petiole 0.5–2 cm. long, canaliculate, usually glabrous; stipules broadly lanceolate, obovate or oblong, ± elliptic, 2–15 × 1–8 mm., deciduous or ± persistent, usually glabrous.. Flowers many in terminal or axillary corymbose panicles, 1.5–2.5 cm. in diameter, zygomorphic; bracts 0.5–2.5 mm. long, deciduous; bracteoles ± 1 mm. long, ± persistent.. Sepals oblong-elliptic, 2–3 × 1–1.5 mm., sericeous outside, glabrescent.. Petals white to cream or yellow-orange (? red), 6–9 × 4–5 mm., distinctly clawed, deeply fimbriate at margins.. Stamens with ovate-oblong anthers 1–1.5 mm. long; filaments 4–7 mm. long, minutely pubescent.. Ovary densely sericeous; styles 4–8 mm. long, glabrous.. Samara with lateral wing circular or broadly ovate, 4–5 cm. in diameter, glabrous, somewhat undulate; dorsal wing crest-like, 1.5–3 × 0.4–0.6 cm.