Iodes velutina var. velutina
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Description
Climber, similar in leaves and flowers to I. philippinensis.
Branchlets shortly rufous-pubescent especially so on one side;
Leaves ovate, apex short acuminate and subacute by a glandular tip, i.e. the protruding midrib, base rounded or generally subcordate, firmly chartaceous, upper surface initially ± densely short pubescent, soft to the touch, glabrescent except the midrib, undersurface velvety by numerous ± appressed substrigose and even more numerous softer ± erect hairs, the tomentum rusty-olivaceous in dry, said to be whitish in fresh specimens, the intervenium, i.e. the proper space between the veinlets glabrous and thus green, (3-)4-10 by 2-5.5(-8) cm, nerves 4-5 rather steeply curved-ascendent pairs, a little raised beneath only, veins and reticulation of veinlets ± hidden by the tomentum underneath;
Seed solitary, compressed.