Kalamkam

perennial herbaceous vine Height: 5 meters Leaves: Leaves simple, opposite, stalked. Leaf blade 3 to 13 cm wide and from 3 to 10 cm wide, oval or triangular, almost glabrous or lower face bearing a sparse pubescence. Its apex is acute and its base shortly acuminate, deep and roped subhastate or subsagitate. The main venation is formed from 3 to 7 palmate-veined from the base. Margin subentire, wavy or coarsely toothed. Small petiole more or less as long as the blade. Flowers: Inflorescence formed by small whitish or greenish-white flower heads arranged in panicles, twigs bearing composite cymes, dense, terminal and lateral. The flowers are long-stalked. The flower stalk is 5 mm long, each having at its top a subinvolucrale bract, narrowly elliptic to obovate, acuminate, glabrous to more or less pubescent, about 2 mm long. The flowers are 4 to 5.5 mm long and contain only 4 flowers. The involucral bracts are arranged in 2 rows. They are obovate oblong, greenish white, sparsly pubescent, about 3.5 mm long and 1 mm wide, acute or shortly acuminate apex and laciniate margin. The flowers are white, all tubular, corolla is 2.5 to 3 mm long, ending with 5 triangular lobes. The style is long forked. Fruits: The fruit is a black achene, oblong to obovate, ribbed, pentagonal section, from 1.5 to 2 mm long. Its white longitudinal ribs are covered with bristles. The faces are sparsly glandular. The achene is surmounted by a pappus 30-40 uniseriate long bristles 2.5 mm, white and barbed turning brown, they are sometimes swollen at the top.