Description

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Growth Form: Lianas.

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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

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