From the Greek chone — funnel, morphos — shaped, alluding to the corolla shape.

Scandent shrubs and lianas, evergreen; latex white. Stems woody, without spines. Leaves opposite, stalked; blade well developed; colleters absent at base. Inflorescence terminal, cymose. Flowers scented, stalked. Corolla salver-shaped; tube cylindrical, slightly expanded at top and base; lobes convolute in bud, overlapping to the right. Corolline corona absent. Stamens enclosed, attached near top of tube, sticking to style head. Disk annular or cup-shaped. Fruit of separate carpels, a pair of woody follicles, dehiscent along adaxial suture. Seeds numerous, oblong to ovoid, not winged, comose.

One species occasionally cultivated in warmer areas. Frost-sensitive.

Cuttings.

Scandent liana, corolla salver-shaped with lobes overlapping to the right in bud.

13 species in Asia and Malesia.

Forster (1996a).

Source: Forster, P. (2002). Apocynaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.