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P.ribesioides
| Habit : | Very robust and stout climber with thick branches, deeply furrowed when dry.
| | Leaves : | 20-30 cm. very coriaceous linear- or ovate-oblong acuminate base deeply cordate 5-9 nerved at the very base 3-nerved higher up, petiole 2.5 - 5 cm. Leaves variable, sometimes 12.5 cm. broad, basal sinus 2.5 - 3.75 cm. deep, lobes rounded equal or not; nerves very strong beneath, nervules slender; petioles very stout; young leaves small, lanceolate, subsaggitately cordate.
| | Spikes : | Fruiting spike short stout, pedicel glabrous as long as the globose apiculate fruit. Spikes 2.5 - 7.5 cm.; bracts short coriaceous, rachis of spike stout rigid; bracteoles together semilunar.
| | Fruits : | 1.25 cm. diam. |
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