雞屎藤

植物簡介

It is a climber up to 7 m long and has young parts that are without hair to densely covered with hair. Its leaves smell unpleasant when crushed. Its opposite, stalked leaves have blades that are usually egg- or lance-shaped with a pointed tip, 2–21 by 0.7–9 cm, and have 4–5 pairs of fine veins. Its flowers are white with a violet centre, have funnel-shaped corollas that are densely covered with hair. The flowers are arranged in clusters at leaf axils or at the end of flowering branches. Its fruit is slightly round and 4–6 mm wide. Its seed dispersal units (diaspores) are slightly round, 3.5–5.5 by 3–5 mm, black, and without an obvious wing.