A big climber, branches stout. Leaves elliptical to broadly ovate, 12.5—16 cm x 9—12.5 cm, glabrous, coriaceous, petiole 9—20 mm long, strongly winged or not, stipules entire. Flowering head up to 3 cm in diameter, 10 cm in fruit, peduncle up to 3 cm long, flowers short pedicellate, yellowish, calyx fusiform, lobes elliptical to oblong, pubescent, corolla up to 2.3 cm long, pubescent. Capsule fusiform, 1.3—2.5 cm long, pubescent.
The leaves are used for rubbing on the body to relieve pain and for rheumatism. The juice of the leaves was used for thrush, and mixed with iron-rust for framboesia (yaws).
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