Vincetoxicum lycioides (E.Mey.) Kuntze

Perennial, slender, foliose, herbaceous, twining climber. Stems much branched, usually > 2 m long when mature, usually hairy. Leaves herbaceous, narrowly lanceolate to ovate or ovate-oblong, 38-103 x 19-53 mm, base rounded to subcordate, apex acute or acuminate, pubescent to seemingly glabrous; petioles 8.5-25.0 mm long. Inflorescences: peduncles very slender 19-63 mm long, producing 1 or 2(-4), widely separated, umbel-like, 5-8-flowered cymes. Flowers rotate; pedicels slender, 6-30 mm long. Corolla rotate, lobed almost to base; lobes linear-lanceolate or oblong, 4.2-6.2 x 1.5-2.5 mm, glabrous on both surfaces; dull green. Staminal corona: lobes tuberculate, subquadrate with transverse ridge at base, obtuse or acuminate apically, keeled down inner surface and fused to rest of gynostegial column, 0.5-0.8 mm high, equalling or just exceeding truncate or obtuse style-stigma-head with small raised central boss that may be bifid.