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P.chaba
| Habit : | A glabrous fleshy climber with adhesive roots with long, conical, erect spike.
| | Leaves : | Very short-petioled, rather coriaceous oblong-ovate or lanceolate acuminate, 3-5-nerved at the very obliquely cordate auricled base penninerved above it, 12.5 - 17.5 by 6.25 - 8.75 cm., rather shinuing above, pale when dry, base very variable, nerves 3-6 pair above the 3-5 basal; nervules arching; petiole 0.63 - 1.25 cm. The alternate nerves of the main portion of the leaf, all starting from the midrib.
| | Spikes : | Fruiting spike stoutly peduncled suberect conico-cylindric, 2.5 - 5 cm. long, 1.25 cm. diam., broadest at the base, obtuse, forming a fleshy cone of innumerable fruits 0.31 cm. diam.
| | Fruits : | Innumerable, 0.31 cm. diam. |
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