Long Grass Nature Refuge
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Woody scrambler or climber with + twining branches, glabrous; older branches + longitudinally ridged and with fawnish bark. Leaves mostly opposite, strongly dimorphic with juvenile leaves 2--8 cm long and with 8--17 small bluntly toothed leaflets; adult leaves 8--16 cm long and mostly 3--9-foliolate, leaflets linear to + ovate, 2.5--8 cm long, 0.2--3 cm wide, apex acuminate with a mucro, base rounded to cuneate, margins usually entire, glabrous; petiole to 1--4.5 cm long; lateral petiolules 1--2 mm long. Inflorescences 5--15 cm long. Calyx 3--5 mm long. Corolla 1--2.5 cm long, whitish and often with purple blotches or stripes in throat, bearded inside, glabrous outside; tube + straight, 5--10 mm diam.; lobes 3--6 mm long. Capsule oblong-ovoid, 4--6 cm long, 10--20 mm wide, beaked; winged seeds 10--15 mm diam. Grows to a large woody climber in coastal rainforest or as a scrambler or climber in moist gullies in sclerophyll forest and woodland, frequently in rocky sites. (PlantNet) Strong woody vine or scandent shrub. Leaves opposite, compound, 5-foliate on long, jointed stems with prominent pulvinules, rachis markedly extended between the two pairs of lateral leaflets; lateral leaflets elliptical or ovate, base obtuse or rounded, petiolules very small or nearly absent (?), apex acute, terminal leaflet much larger, spathulate or obovate, base attenuate, apex acute; dark green, moderately glossy above, slightly paler below. Flowers and fruit not observed. Uncommon. Mt Glorious, in cleared, open marginal forest, among regrowth.
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