Telosma

Perennial twiners. Leaves petiolate, elliptic or ovate-elliplic. Flowers in pedunculate or subsessile, umbel-like cymes which are subaxillary or lateral at nodes. Sepals elliptic, membranous, ciliate. Corolla with inflated base, then constricted into a neck, densely hairy in mouth and throat; lobes longer than tube. Corona of 5 erect, obovate lobes arising from base of staminal column, with a linear process from inner face which is longer than the lobe and projects above style head. Staminal column arising from base of corolla. Anthers 2-locular, with erect, membranous, ovate appendages reaching style apex. Pollinia linear, solitary and erect, with short caudicles. Stylehead pentagonal-ovoid. Follicles smooth. Seeds crowned with a tuft of hairs. x = 11.