Dendrophthoe constricta
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Description
Glabrous except for young shoots, inflorescences and flowers ochre to red-brown stellate hairy, eventually glabrescent except for the ovary.
Leaves scattered; lamina ovate or elliptic, (7-)10-25 by (3-)5-14 cm, cuneate to truncate at the base to a petiole 5-10 mm long, mostly obtuse or rounded or sometimes acute at the apex, dull on both sides; venation pinnate with the midrib and the somewhat curvinerved main laterals distinct above and prominent and raised below.
Inflorescences at the nodes, a 10- to 20-flower- ed raceme; axis 10-20(-40) mm long; pedicels 0.5-1 mm long.