Hermaphrodite climbing shrub that can reach 4 m in height if supported on trees and rocks (up to 8 m in more rainy areas). Branches with greyish to dark red bark, fibrous, with recurved spines up to 3 cm, which are in fact enlarged and hardened petioles. Young branchlets hairy, pubescent. Leaves 3-5 \u00d7 5-7(8) cm, simple, with petiole 1-10 mm, opposite or subopposite, ovate, obovate or elliptical (suborbicular when young), acute, obtuse or emarginate, with entire margin, without stipules, from glabrescent to pubescent on both sides, the younger leaves always pubescent. Inflorescence corymbiform, axillary, 1.5-2 cm, with longly petiolate foliaceous bracts. Flowers pentamerous, very fragrant. Sepals fused, with 5 triangular shallow lobes, from greenish to reddish. Petals 4-6 \u00d7 1-2 mm, free, broadly lanceolate, very narrowed towards the base, white, white-reddish or yellowish, sometimes pubescent on the outside. Stamens inserted above the tube of the calyx, with filaments 5-10 mm and red anthers, longly exserted. Ovary inferior. Fruit an ovoid samara (1.2-2.7 cm long), with 5 longitudinal papery wings, 4-6 mm wide, indehiscent, from light yellow to brown-reddish, glabrous or pubescent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12861","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n