Phytocrene interrupta
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Description
Climber.
Branchlets slender (5-7 mm ø), deeply striate and brownish-hirsute, older parts laxly set with hardly pungent small emergences.
Leaves broadly oblong, apex for 3-10 mm subabruptly acuminate, base slightly cordate, firmly charta-ceous, glabrous above except nerves, covered with soft hairs all over the undersurface, and with stiffer ones on midrib and nerves, soft to the touch, entire, 7-17 by 4-8(-9) cm, midrib and nerves flat or a little impressed above, markedly prominent beneath, nerves 2 basal pairs (of which the outer pair is short, the inner one ascending to the lower ⅓ of the length of the lamina), other pinnate nerves 6-8 pairs, rather straight and sub-parallel to each other and the inner basal pair, reticulation of veins and veinlets fine and hardly raised above, more coarse and much raised beneath;