Tournefortia oppositifolia
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Climber.
Apart from the two uppermost ones leaves opposite or subopposite, ovate to ovate-lanceolate; petiole 5-20 mm long, sometimes flexuous as if used to attach to some minor branches; blade 3-10 by 1.5-5.5 cm, acuminate, broadly rounded at base, subglabrous or more or less densely short hairy especially on lower side, with 6 to 7 primary nerves on each side.
Inflorescence terminal or sublateral, dichotomously branched several times, contracted or with long, divaricate primary branches, with dense, sessile or shortly (up to 1 mm) stalked in one and the same plant.
Fruit breaking up into two 2-celled pyrenes with a distinct keel at suture, only known in immature state, at that time ovoid, 2 mm long, 1.3 mm wide, green, white in mature state according to collector; stigma sessile, narrowly conical, c. 0.8 mm long, with a widened, deeply bilobed apex.