Culcasia angolensis Welw. ex Schott

Stem climbing to a height of 80-100 ft., 1/3-1/2 in. thick, not tubercled. LEAVES large, 2-6 in. distant, glabrous; petioles 4-10 in. long, sheathing up to 1-2 in. from the top; apex of sheath prominent, rounded; blade 7-15 in. long, 4-7 1/2 in. broad, unequal-sided, elliptic-oblong, cuspidate-acute, or shortly acuminate, broadly rounded or subtruncate at the base; primary lateral veins 10-15 on each side of the midrib, prominent beneath; no glands. INFLORESCENCE: Peduncles numerous in a stout terminal bracteate racene, 1 3/4-3 1/2 in. long, moderately stout. Bracts 3-4 in. long, about 1-1 1/4 in. broad, oblong, obtuse or acute, with 2 wing-like keels down the back. Spathe about 2 1/2 in. long and 2 in. broad, elliptic, obtuse, apiculate, expanded, deeply concave, very shortly convolute at the base, green (Mann), soon falling off; margins revolute. Spadix shorter than the spathe, sessile, clavate; female part about 5 lin. long, 1/4 in. thick; male part 1 1/4-1 1/2 in. long, 4-6 lin. thick near the obtusely rounded apex. Ovaries about 25-28, depressed-globose, 2-celled; stigma large, discoid. Anthers densely crowded, in groups of 4. INFRUCTESCENCE: Berries red