Chilocarpus beccarianus

Chilocarpus beccarianus is a plant in the genus Chilocarpus, in the family Apocynaceae. It is native to Borneo.[1] It is an accepted species, first described by Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre and originally published in Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris, n.s., 1: 101 (1898).[2]

Chilocarpus beccarianus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Apocynaceae
Genus:	Chilocarpus
Species:	C. beccarianus
Binomial name
Chilocarpus beccarianus Pierre

It is a large woody climber which grows up to 15 metres tall. Its branchlets are glabrous, rarely puberulent. Its leaves are described as: "Inflorescence terminal and axillary in uppermost leaf axils (sometimes these uppermost leaves greatly reduced in size), forming a terminal panicle mostly longer than subtending leaves, occasionally shorter, 3.2-13.7 cm long, lax, puberulent to completely glabrous except occasionally for a few hairs on bracts; Stamens inserted at 2-3.1 mm from corolla base which is 0.3-0.4 of tube length." It has fusiform fruit with slight constrictions, measuring 5.5-10.5 by 1.5-2.7 cm. Its seeds are large.[3]