Triaspis mozambica A. Juss.

Small climber, up to 3 m. long, with younger stems and inflorescences +/- densely ferrugineous-sericeous, older ones glabrescent. Leaf-lamina lanceolate, ovate, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, 2.5-8 x 2.4 cm., obtuse or acute, apiculate, base rounded or subcordate, membranous, ferrugineous-sericeous on both surfaces when young, soon glabrescent; petiole 0.7-1.2 cm. long, canaliculate, usually sericeous; stipules very small, deciduous. Flowers numerous in +/- loose, terminal or axillary corymbs, +/- 1-1.5 cm. in diameter, zygomorphic; bracts linear-lanceolate, 3.5 mm. long; bracteoles linear, 1-2 mm. long. Sepals ovate, +/- 2 mm. long, sericeous outside. Petals green or yellowish-green, obovate and +/- cucullate, 4.5-6 mm. long, spreading or recurved, shortly clawed, with margins shortly fimbriate or crenulate. Stamens with ovate or oblong-ovate anthers 1-1.25 mm. long; filaments 2.5-3 mm. long, glabrous. Ovary densely sericeous; styles glabrous. Samara with lateral wing subcircular, 2-2.7 cm. in diameter, retuse or +/- emarginate at apex; dorsal wing crest-like, 0.8 x 0.25 cm., subcordate at base.