Description
Key Characters:
Growth Form:
Lianas.
Stems:
Roots:
Leaves:
Leaves simple.
Alternate.
Blades the lobes lanceolate, 4–8 cm long, 5–12 cm wide.
Surfaces glabrous.
Margins deeply 5-lobed.
Petioles with 2–4 minute nectaries ca. 1 mm long.
Stipules auriculate, 13–15 mm long, 7–9 mm wide.
Flowers:
Flowers solitary; bracts 3, broadly ovate, ca. 2 mm long; hypanthium 0.4–0.6 cm long.
Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic, campanulate, actinomorphic, 7–10 cm in diameter.
Calyx of 5 sepals, white, with a subapical horn-like process 3–5 mm long, imbricate, persistent.
Corolla of 5 petals, white, alternate with the sepals, imbricate; corona purple–banded, filamentous, ca.2 cm long.
Stamens 5(–8), on an androgynophore; anthers dithecal, versatile, opening by longitudinal slits.
Ovary superior, 3-carpellate, 1-celled, stipitate, placentation parietal; ovules numerous, anatropous; styles as many as carpels.
Fruit:
Fruit unknown.
Seeds numerous; Seed coat reticulate; with an aromatic; succulent; edible aril; embryo embedded in copious oily; soft fleshy endosperm.
Ploidy:
2n = 18
Habitat:
Elevation Range: