Phytocrene racemosa
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Description
Tall woody climber, up to 40 m, stem c. 1.5 cm ø covered with thin longitudinally striate and finely fissured brown bark which bears a few transverse linear lenticels;
Leaves oblong-obovate, apex abruptly (c. 1.5 cm) acuminate, acutish, base broadly cuneate and shallowly cordate, charta-ceous to subcoriaceous, glabrous except the nerves which are hairy in their basal part above, ± densely set with short subappressed or more spreading pale rusty hairs especially on nerves and veins and soft to the touch beneath, edge slightly sinuate-denticulate, or entire, 18-32 by 7-20 cm, nerves flat above, much prominent beneath as is the rather coarse reticulation of veins and veinlets, nerves 2 basal pairs, the outer pair short, the inner one rather straight-ascending to the middle of the lamina, upper c. 4 pairs from the midrib also rather steeply curved-ascendent;