Description : | "Liana, at least 16 m high. Leaves leathery, upper side glossy, dark green, lower side glossy, medium green with a pale green primary nerve.
Calyx fused, top half breaking of as a cap at flowering, creamy white, outer side with a dense brown indumentum. Outer 3 petals orange, inner 3 orange with dark red margins and on the inner side a yellow basal spot which produces a sticky liquid. All petals with a silky glance by silverish hairs. Old petals become whitish. Stamens red. Styles pale yellow, glossy by a sticky liquid. Flowers fragrant (a very special, fresh smell).
Some flowers apparently ill, these smaller and pale green-yellow where normally orange." |