Aspidopterys hirsuta (Wallich) A. Juss. in Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. ser. 2. 13: 267. 1840 & in Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 3: 512. 1843; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 421. 1874. Hiraea hirsuta Wallich, Pl. Asiat. Rar. 1: 13, t. 13. 1830.

Climbers; stems and branches clothed with long spreading flaccid hairs. Leaves broadly obovate, oblong or orbicular-obovate, cordate at base, abruptly acuminate at apex, 7 - 11 x 5 - 6.5 cm, membranous, villous on both surfaces, dense along margins; petioles ca 7 - 8 mm long. Panicles lax, branches opposite, spreading. Flowers subumbellate, ca 4 - 5 mm across; flower-buds 3 x 2 mm; pedicels rusty-brown, 3 - 5 mm long in buds, ca 22 mm long in fruits, articulate below middle at 8 - 10 mm from base, hirsute above articulation. Calyx-lobes ovate, 1.5 - 2 mm long, glabrous, white. Petals obovate, 4 - 5 x 2 - 2.5 mm, glabrous. Filaments 1.5 - 2 mm long; anthers ovoid, 1 - 1.5 mm long. Ovary glabrous. Samaras linear-oblong, rounded at apex, 3.5 - 6 x 1.3 - 2.3 cm, glabrous, brown; carpophores ca 1 mm long.

Fl. & Fr. Aug. - Dec.

Distrib. India: W. Bengal and Meghalaya.

Myanmar.