Paralepistemon shirensis (Oliv.) J. Lejoly & S. Lisowski

shirensis: of the Shire Highlands in Malawi where the type specimen was collected.

Robust climber, up to 15 m tall. Stems woody with whitish, short appressed hairs, densely so when young. Leaves broadly ovate-cordate to almost circular, 3.5 - 17 cm long, thinly pubescent above, densely whitish or greyish hairy beneath; margin entire; petiole ip to 12 cm long, slender, densely hairy. Inflorescences few- to many-flowered, 3-10 cm long in the axils of upper leaves, together forming lax terminal heads, sometimes pseudo-umbellate. Flowers white, widely funnel-shaped. Fruit broadly ellipsoid to somewhat obovoid, shortly beaked, densely greyish hairy, indehiscent.

Angola, DRC, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mpumalanga, South Africa.