Geitonoplesium cymosum
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Description
Twining climber, 1-5 m tall.
Leaves resupinate, with a short twisted petiole, broadly ovate to lanceolate or narrowly linear, 5-20 by 0.5-5 cm, rigid, the apex obtuse, acute or apiculate, with a prominent to obscure midrib.
Inflorescence a small, loose terminal cyme or panicle of 1-many flowers; pedicel 0.5-3 cm long, with a small bract.
Sepals firm, shortly hood-shaped at apex.
Petals flat, obtuse, slightly imbricate, the margins thin and entire.
Stamens: filaments filiform, separate, geniculate below anther; pollen trichotomosulcate.
Fruit a blue-black, globular, succulent, indehiscent berry, 8-15 mm in diam.
Seeds 1-10, black, trigono- ovate. 2n = 20 .