Dolichandra hispida

Description. Liana. Stems terete, striate, interpetiolar region with ridges and glandular fields, eglandular and glandular trichomes covering the stem surface, eglandular trichomes simple, densely distributed in a hispid indument, glandular trichomes peltate and pateliform, flaky bark absent; prophylls 1.6 - 3 mm long, subulate, apiculate, smooth, hispid. Leaves bifoliolate with a terminal tendril; petioles semi-terete, hispid and with peltate trichomes, 0.95 - 4.49 cm long; petiolules terete, hispid with simple and peltate trichomes, 0.3 - 2.9 cm long, with equal length; tendrils trifid and uncinate; leaflets ovate, obovate or elliptic, apex acute to short acuminate with a drip tip, base rounded, symmetric or slight asymmetric, 3.2 - 8.6 x 1.2 - 7.14 cm, margin entire, membranaceous, the abaxial surface hispid with simple trichomes more concentrated on the veins, peltate trichomes throughout and pateliform glandular trichomes concentrated at the base, the adaxial surface hispid, primary venation straight, unbranched, secondary venation brochidodromous and tertiary venation percurrent. Inflorescence an axillary 3 - flowered cyme, rarely reduced to one flower; pedicels 0.5 - 4.3 cm long, hispid and with peltate glandular trichomes; receptacle with pateliform trichomes; bracts deciduous, floral bracts filiform, deciduous, rarely present, elliptic to obovate, 0.7 - 5.5 mm long, membranaceous. Calyx green, bi-lobed, spathaceous with an incurved apicule, 1.4 - 3.2 x 0.7 - 1.6 cm, membranaceous, glabrate to hispidulous, with peltate trichomes. Corolla yellow, bilabiate with the upper 2 lobes reflexed and the lower 3 lobes forward, tubular-infundibuliform, glabrate, hispidulous 5.1 - 9.1 cm long, 1.3 - 2.2 cm, 4 - 5.7 cm wide; lobes obcordate, 1.2 - 2 cm long, 1.2 - 2.15 cm wide, margin entire. Androecium inserted at the tube, with simple trichomes at the insertion; short filaments 1.15 - 1.7 cm long, longer filaments 1.74 - 2.4 cm long, glabrous, attached at the same height from the base of the corolla, 4.5 - 9.4 mm from the base; staminode 8 - 9 mm long; anthers pale-yellow or white, 3 - 3.9 mm long. Gynoecium inserted at the tube, glabrous; pistil 3.3 - 3.8 cm long; ovary vinaceus, linear, 7 - 9 x 1.4 mm long; style 2.6 - 3 cm long; stigma rhombic. Fruits linear, attenuate toward base and apex, 77 - 125.8 x 1.17 - 2.2 cm, smooth, with lenticels, glabrous. Seeds with hyaline wings, thin, 2.2 - 3.8 x 1.4 - 1.8 cm wide, seed body oblong to ovoid, woody, 6 - 9 x 8 - 15 mm.