多花风筝果 duo hua feng zheng guo

Lianoid shrubs, ca. 2 m; branches terete, with rounded lenticels, slightly rough, glabrate. Leaf blade leathery, oblong, 12-13 × 5-5.5 cm, abaxially glabrous or pubescent only along midrib and lateral veins, adaxially glabrous, base cordate, abaxially with 2 glands, margin recurved when dry, apex acute; lateral veins 6 or 7 pairs, midrib stout. Racemes axillary, multiflorous, densely puberulent; pedicels ca. 1 cm, articulate at middle. Sepals ovate, puberulent, 1 gland per sepal; glands rotund, not decurrent to pedicel. Samara puberulent, apex entire or irregularly serrate, abaxial wing obovate, 2.2-2.5 cm, lateral wings oblong, ca. 1.7 × 0.5 cm.

● Shrub forests on summits of limestone mountains; ca. 600 m. SW Guangxi (Longzhou).