Triaspis macropteron Welw. ex Oliv.

A tall woody climber (sometimes creeping) up to 4 m. or more in length; stems densely ferrugineous-pubescent when young, becoming glabrous when older. Leaf-lamina ovate, broadly lanceolate, lanceolate-oblong or oblong, 6-13 x 2-6.5 cm., acute or apiculate, or sometimes subobtuse, cordate, rounded or cuneate at base, densely ferrugineous-pubescent on both surfaces when young, later usually glabrous, dark green above, grey-green beneath, with the secondary and tertiary nerves +/- strongly developed; petiole 0.5-2 cm. long, canaliculate, usually glabrous; stipules broadly lanceolate, obovate or oblong, +/- elliptic, 2-15 x 1-8 mm., deciduous or +/- persistent, usually glabrous. Flowers many in terminal or axillary corymbose panicles, 1.5-2.5 cm. in diameter, zygomorphic; bracts 0.5-2.5 mm. long, deciduous; bracteoles +/- 1 mm. long, +/- persistent. Sepals oblong-elliptic, 2-3 x 1-1.5 mm., sericeous outside, glabrescent. Petals white to cream or yellow-orange (? red), 6-9 x 4-5 mm., distinctly clawed, deeply fimbriate at margins. Stamens with ovate-oblong anthers 1-1.5 mm. long; filaments 4-7 mm. long, minutely pubescent. Ovary densely sericeous; styles 4-8 mm. long, glabrous. Samara with lateral wing circular or broadly ovate, 4-5 cm. in diameter, glabrous, somewhat undulate; dorsal wing crest-like, 1.5-3 x 0.4-0.6 cm.